"Fall Lewis Island" by Jan Lipes
Limited to 250 Prints - s/n
Image size: 12"x9"
Printed on Somerset Velvet
$100.00
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"Sunset Coryell Bridge" by Jan Lipes
Limited to 250 Prints - s/n
Image size: 18"x12"
Printed on Somerset Velvet
$160.00
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Jan Lipes, of Solebury, PA, has been painting in the New Hope - Lambertville area for the past thirteen years. Collectors throughout the region have enthusiastically embraced his work and his last annual exhibition was a virtual sell-out of his year's work. Lipes has won numerous awards for his local landscapes, including the Phillips Mill Art Committee award at the Phillips' Mill 71st Annual Juried Fall Exhibition as well as the Sienkiewicz Award for Traditional Painting in the Style of the New Hope School at the Phillips' Mill 72nd Annual Juried Fall Exhibition. He was the featured artist in the Area Guide to Bucks and Hunterdon Counties, 33rd Edition, 2002-2003, and appeared in the September 2003 Fine Arts issue of Nouveau Magazine as well as the book Artists of the River Towns by Doris Brandes. In 2003 he received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for Painting. His work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Sketch Club and at the Gallery at Bristol-Myers-Squibb in Princeton, New Jersey. Most recently Lipes' poster based on his original oil painting included in this year's exhibition, "Rieglesville Bridge Winter" (Centenary Commemorative Editon, 1904-2004), won First Place Prize at the 2004 Shad Festival Poster Auction.

Born in 1951 in New York City, Jan Lipes graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1976. Lipes moved to Solebury over twenty years ago with his wife, Janet, and worked as an emergency physician at Doylestown Hospital until 1991. It was at that time that his battle with multiple sclerosis made it impossible to continue his career in medicine, and Lipes taught himself to paint despite limited use of only his non-dominant left hand and being confined to his wheelchair. Today Jan Lipes works mostly from his state-of-the-art studio, using studies and images obtained in the field during "picture hunting expeditions", to create his award winning impressionist landscapes. "Art is my life's work..," says Lipes. "I absorb scenes from the world, process them through my head and heart and place them back with my understanding and feeling stamped on them." A former physician and now a painter, Lipes is also a weekly Arts columnist for the local newspaper The Bucks County Herald.