It is amazing how many good painters there are out there. I try and keep up to date with what my peers are doing via various art magazines (my favorites are American Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur). The June 2008 issue of American Art Collector featured Jeremy Lipking. The detail of his painting "Skylar" that was featured on the cover and shown here reveals what a marvelous touch Jeremy has. One thing that Jeremy does that separates him from most good artists today is his ability to paint edges so wonderfully. He knows how to see and use the soft edges to truly achieve a sense of space. This ability also holds his paintings together so well. Many artists' paintings today lack the overall compositional strength that Jeremy's have because they have all kinds of hard edges throughout their paintings. This creates an unnatural sense because our eyes don't see hard edges except upon what we're truly focusing on. All else belongs to the periphery, and thus have soft edges.Jeremy paints from life and thus he knows how edges truly are. Many artists rely on photographs, and without the awareness of edges in nature, create paintings that lack "life" since they don't move past the mechanical recording of a camera. How refreshing it is to see Jeremy's beautiful work!
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