I was born in Liverpool in 1955. I have drawn for as long as I can remember. My current way of drawing arrived fully-formed in early 1989. Self-taught and working intuitively, my art is a form of pure meditation and spiritual contemplation.

My drawings have appeared in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the USA ; also in Raw Vision magazine and a number of small press outsider art publications in England and France. In early 1995 I moved south to Brighton in order to live close to the sea. In the late 1990, I became involved with Artability South-East on their one-to-one outreach project as a tutor and mentor, working with disabled artists.

Ian Pyper worked in coal industry from 1976 to 1981. He became a full-time artist in 1984.