George Shipperley
“Driven by imagination and improvisation, George Shipperley’s oil pastels stir emotion with an exciting interplay of color”.
The Pastel Journal
Based on years of observation of the natural world, George Shipperley merges memories of nature with his imagination to create a vision all his own.
The artist applies multiple layers of oil pastel and a sgraffito technique to each piece, creating an expert sense of poetry throughout the composition. The finished works reveal the immediacy of abstract expressionism with a solid ground of realism.
A native of Illinois, Shipperley studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Aurora University. His works are in public and private collections throughout the United States.
”I like that spontaneity, the way the color stirs my emotion. I let the results suggest to me what’s there.” - George Shipperley