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 Linda Tippetts is one of
Montana's best known plein air painters. She is the recipient of numerous awards,
including the 1993 National Arts for the Parks Academy Grand Prize ($50K). Her work is
held in permanent museum collections in Arizona, Montana, and Washington, D.C.
"Plein Air Painting is the purest art form. There's no other influence besides the
direct communication between the artist and the scene in front of the artist's senses. The
composition, color, values, and techniques all become secondary to that subconscious
brushstroke which comes with practice.
"I've recently returned to my childhood stomping grounds along the Rocky Mountain
Front. I'm experiencing old familiar places and backpacking to little-known areas of these
fabulous Rockies in Montana to find that magic painting spot where the country stops you
in your tracks.
"And every day I'm soaking up the culture here-the cattle drives, ranchers and
farmers checking their cattle and fields, women driving the farm machinery, powwows and
Indian relay races-and I find it's little-changed in my lifetime." |
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