Maija Peeples-Bright

Maija Peeples-Bright is an American painter associated with the San Francisco Bay Area Funk Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, known for her vibrant, whimsical imagery featuring animals, mythological creatures, and fantastical landscapes rendered in brilliant, jewel-like colors. Her work blends elements of psychedelic art, folk tradition, and personal mythology, creating an immediately recognizable visual language that is both playful and spiritually resonant. She was part of a generation of California artists who embraced irreverence and imagination as a counterpoint to the prevailing minimalism and conceptualism of the era.