Art Blog #45

Laurie Lipton - Quick Bio

Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honors). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, the UK and has recently moved to Los Angeles after 36 years abroad. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA.

Laurie Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 16th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort. My drawings take longer to create than a painting of equal size and detail.”

For more information, please visit www.laurielipton.com

Paul writes:

Laurie Lipon's art is truly outstanding, her meticulous process is brutal yet very affective, in her own words, she has the talent, experience and creativity to draw whatever she wants, Her subject matter can be hard hitting, witty and dark yet is always unique and worth admiring and studying.

I hope to have more of her art in the gallery in the future.