Jan Lipes

"Art is my life's work. There is nothing more important to me than truth in pursuit of beauty. I'm a filter for Nature. 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. Every painting I create is an expression of how I feel about life in its totality."
-Jan Lipes

Jan Lipes is a self-taught painter who works in the Pennsylvania Impressionist style. He paints mainly in oil, and his subject matter is the landscape of the area in and around Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Hunterdon County, New Jersey, particularly scenes along the Delaware River. In 1991, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and leaving his career as a physician, Lipes began painting. His subject matter follows the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition of depicting local buildings, trees, hills, and the river or canal, though his rendering often presents a heightened expressiveness through a bold color palate and hundreds of visible brushstrokes that comprise the work. Formerly a plein air painter, Lipes currently paints in his studio in Bucks County, working from his sketches of local scenes. Lipes has had numerous exhibitions and has won several awards for his work, including a show at The Newman Gallery in Philadelphia and the Sienkiewicz Award for Traditional Painting in the Style of the New Hope School from The Phillips' Mill 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition. He exhibits annually at the Gratz Gallery in New Hope.

Education and Training
B.S. in literature, City College of New York, New York, 1972
M.D. in Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, 1976
Self-taught artist

Teachers and Influences
Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Hiroshige

Connection to Bucks County
Jan Lipes and his wife Janet moved to Solebury in 1981. Lipes worked as an emergency physician at Doylestown Hospital until 1991, when his battle with multiple sclerosis made it impossible for him to continue his work as a physician, and he turned to painting full time.

Colleagues and Affiliations
Mavis Smith, Robert Beck, Anthony Autorino, Suzanne Douglas, Anne Cooper Dobbins, Richard Lennox

Major Solo Exhibitions
New Hope/Lahaska Continental Bank, 1994
Bianco Gallery Winter Exhibition, Buckingham, Pennsylvania, 1995
Gratz Gallery&Conservation Studio, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
The Newman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002

Major Group Exhibitions
Peddler's Village Annual Art Fair Juried Exhibition, 1994
Bianco Gallery 1st Annual Juried Exhibition, 1994
The Phillips' Mill Community Association 65th Juried Art Exhibition, 1994
Bianco Gallery Invitational Exhibition, 1994, 2001
Art Among Friends, Buckingham Friends School Juried Bicentennial Exhibit at Phillips Mill, 1995
The New Century New Hope Arts Commission Annual Juried Exhibition, 1995
The Morani Gallery and the American Physicians Art Association, 57th Annual Exhibition, 1995
The Second Annual Carversville Art Show, 1997
The Fox Chase Cancer Center First Annual Art Exhibition, 1997
The 18th Annual Summer Exhibition, Coryell Gallery, 1998
The New Century New Hope Arts Commission Annual Juried Exhibition, 1998
The 19th Annual Summer Exhibition, Coryell Gallery, 1999
The 6th Annual Artsbridge Members Show, 1999
The 7th Biennial Juried Art Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, 1999
The Bianco Gallery Christmas Exhibition, The Bianco Gallery, 1999
The 6th Annual National Juried Art Exhibit, Artsbridge at Prallsville Mills, 2000
The New Century Regional Juried Art Exhibition, The New Hope Arts Commission at the Nagy Gallery, 2000
The 7th Annual Artsbridge Members Show, 2000
Group Exhibit, The Artsbridge Gallery at Prallsville Mills, 2000
Morpeth Gallery Holiday Exhibition, Hopewell, NJ, 2000
71st Rittenhouse Square Fine Arts Annual, Philadelphia PA, 2002
Artists of the River Towns Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, 2003
Fox Chase Cancer Center Art Exhibit, 2003
Artists of the River Towns Exhibition, Health & Wellness Center, Warrington, PA, 2004
The Contemporary Eye, Michener Art Museum, New Hope, PA, 2005
Phillips' Mill 75th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, New Hope, PA, 2005

Major Collections
After the Storm, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 2007
Shad Fishermen, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 2005

Major Awards
Second Place, B&W photography, Hunterdon County Public Library Juried Photography Exhibit, 1978
Second Place, Kodak International Newspaper Photo Award, B&W, 1986
People's Choice Award, Lambertville Historical Society & Coryell Gallery, 14th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, 1994
Lou & Carol Della Penna Award, Lambertville Historical Society & Coryell Gallery, 15th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, 1995
Phillips' Mill Art Committee Award in Memory of Frank Bianco, Phillips' Mill 71st Annual Juried Exhibition, 2000
First Place, Fox Chase Cancer Center Art Exhibition, 2000, 2001, 2002
Sienkiewicz Award for Traditional Painting in the Style of the New Hope School, Phillips' Mill 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition, 2001
Honorable Mention, Louisa Melrose Gallery 5th Annual Juried Art Show, 2003
Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Grant for Oil Painting, 2003-2004
First Place, Oil and Acrylics, Shad Festival Poster Auction, 2004
Sienkiewicz Award for Traditional Painting in the Style of the New Hope School, Phillips' Mill 76th Annual Juried Exhibition, 2005
Phillips' Mill 75th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition, June 2005
Phillips' Mill Art Committee Award in Memory of Beverly Fuller Garnett and Robert Rosenwald, Phillips' Mill 77th Annual Juried Exhibition, 2006
The Stoner Award in memory of Barline A., Phillips' Mill 78th Annual Juried Exhibition, 2007
The Marty Award for Contribution to the Arts, Artsbridge, 2007