Randall Tipton

Landscape Painter in the Pacific Northwest working from direct experience, using drawings, photos and memories.

Artist Statement;
The environment I live in and the landscapes I travel to are the content of most of my work. Personal contact with a place provides the sensory information to create a convincing painting. My inspiration always begins with an experience in a landscape. Whether it’s a walk in a local park or a destination hike, what happens while in that location matters.

My earliest artistic influence came from the Zen Japanese aesthetic revealed in the encyclopedias in our home; then later, from the insights of the American abstract expressionists. Their conviction that meaningful, honest painting was best achieved through improvisation, motivated me. Though I am dedicated to interpreting the natural world, I do so as a secondary concern as I respond to the painting process taking place before me.

Memory is a key element as I manipulate the paint. When something within the character of that landscape emerges, I recognize it and build from there.

I believe that my frequent immersion into the environment informs my work in a subconscious manner and is revealed in the act of painting.

About the Artist;
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mostly self taught
master class with Richard Diebenkorn 1985

Solo Exhibitions:
2023 White Bird Gallery Cannon Beach OR
2022 Hanson Howard Gallery Ashland OR
2021 White Bird Gallery Cannon Beach OR
2018 Grants Pass Art Museum, Grants Pass Oregon
2016 Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay Oregon
2015 Museum 510, Lake Oswego Oregon
2013 Waterworks Gallery, Friday Harbor, WA
2012 Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland OR
2011 Lakewood Center for the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
2008 The Migration Gallery, Charlottesville VA
2008 Hanson Howard Gallery, Ashland, OR
2008 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
2005 Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2001 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
1997 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
1995 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
1990 The Maveety Gallery, Portland and Lincoln City, OR
1989 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
1987 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
1985 “Southwest Landscape”, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center,
Pueblo, CO
Group Exhibitions:
2013 White Bird Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR
2011 “Sitka Center for Art and Ecology Invitational” Portland OR
2009 “Expressions West“, Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
2007 “Landscape Invitational”, The Andreeva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2005 “New Work” Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland OR
2005 “Expressions West” Coos Bay Art Museu...