Piper Bangs is an oil painter and student raised in San Antonio, Texas, and is an undergraduate student at Laguna College of Art and Design majoring in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Sculpture. She recently graduated from the North East School of the Arts in San Antonio. Piper's Flora of SATX series explores the inherent and uncultivated beauty of wild Texan plant life through a blend of floral still lifes and botanical illustrations. She has been a finalist in the Art Renewal Center’s Da Vinci Initiative salon category and was recently awarded an honorable mention from the Portrait Society of America in their Future Generation competition. She has exhibited her work across the US and is excited to know that there is much more for her to learn.