RYE TIPPETT

Open skies, fields, and water—this is the world of Rye Tippett, a Bucks county native. Like the Pennsylvania Impressionists, Tippett is intensely observant, representing familiar land and clouds with visible brushwork. What separates his landscapes from others, however, are the hard-to-explain elements like ships, whales, and open railway cars hovering in the sky. Largely a self-taught artist who scoured art history books and visited museums, he calls upon the Symbolist painters, among others, for inspiration. Like Arnold Bocklin and Edvard Munch, Tippett paints haunting and dreamlike scenes, from shorelines to foreboding woods. Of his spectres, Tippett says, “I feel them in certain woods, or rooms in old places and wonder who they were, what they are waiting for. That is what I try to paint, a perspective with a spirit involved in the landscape, I want my paintings to have a presence, not necessarily a heartbeat, but a ghost.”

Tippett is represented in numerous private collections. His work "Bluebird" was accepted in the National American Artists League 88th Grand National Exhibition.