Jan De Lipsey

Jan Marie DeLipsey lives close to Abqiquiu, New Mexico and spends her time painting the states of the Four Corners. Jan Marie started riding when she was 4 and now six decades later she is still horseback, often without saddle on her Andalusian mare. Although Jan had a distinguished career as a research psychologist in the area of trial sciences and litigation, she is now first and foremost a painter of oils.<P>

A lover of the Western landscape and way of life, somewhere along the way Jan Marie fell in love with painting. She has been juried as into several prestigious national painting societies; Oil Painters of America, Women Artists of the West, American Women Artists, National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society and the American Impressionists Society – to name a few.<P>

Jan’s paintings depict her experience of the landscape in a naturalistic way. She is particularly interested in common everyday life events and the simplistic beauty of a grove of trees or clear running limestone stream. In Jan’s words, “Mother Nature does a fine job of showing her simplistic beauty all around us and I want to convey that sense by paying homage with paint, board and brush. For me, the simplest scene of a hayfield or lone standing Oak Tree and violet shadows brings forth deep emotions that cannot be explained with words. I feel driven to share my love of the outdoors with others and one way to do that is through painting.”<P>

It would not be unusual to find Jan and the easel perched on a mountain<P>

in a blowing snowstorm, in a hay field right after a cutting or deep into an arroyo of New Mexico. Jan will tell you that painting onsite electrifies<P>

the senses and brings freshness to landscape painting that studio work alone cannot convey.<P>