- A beautiful monograph presenting the work of landscape artist Mary
Sipp-Green - The collection contains 85 paintings reproduced in full
color, spanning her career to date American landscape painter Mary
Sipp-Green, based in the bucolic Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, is
superlative in her ability to pull in the viewer and transfer the
accompanying emotions in her atmospheric landscapes and seascapes. The
intensely saturated colors in her works evoke an immediate sense of
place and a privileged window on an intimate tableau. Sipp-Green
achieves an ethereal, nuanced quality to her paintings that imparts a
refined, inimitable serenity. Many of the subjects she paints - salt
marshes, barns, meadows, rivers, and the occasional cityscape - are
captured in the beautiful light of dusk or a luminescent sunrise. The
effect is dreamy yet grounded and emotive. Sipp-Green states, While my
preferred medium has always been oil on linen, my methods, techniques,
and aesthetic aims have all undergone significant transformations since
I first began. I learned my craft in the studio, painting still-lifes
and portraits, as well as landscapes drawn directly from nature. Over
time, I became increasingly engaged with more abstract and spiritual
aspects of the landscape form and I began to pursue a less
representational, more expressive style. When describing the 'diffuse
quality of color, ' she explains, I use many layers of paint, allowing
each to dry before the next is applied. Along the way, the surface of
the paint is often refigured in unpredictable ways, and there is much
that has to be scraped, sanded, destroyed and reapplied before the
essence of a place, its mood and atmosphere finally emerges onto the
canvas.
