"Out of the Blue ©  Leon Kipping, 2006   l   "Golden Eye" ©  Leon Kipping, 2005   l   "Tree of Life" ©  Leon Kipping, 2005

Leon Kipping - Digital Paintings (Currently resides: 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands)   :::   WEBSITE :::   EMAIL

Implicit in Léon Kipping's vibrant digital work is a conversation between technology and nature, abstraction and figuration. His compositions combine iconographic imagery with a striking sense of color, texture and pattern to create works that are both highly specific and improvisational in their beauty and playfulness. Shimmering earth tones dance with bright, brilliant hues to create sharp, refracted geometries. Kipping first digitally paints his images on a computer, enabling him to work in the nascent realm of digital manipulation, which offers him variegated methods of compositional metamorphosis. He then transfers his images onto canvas using a combinationof digital print and traditional painting media. His unique method results in arresting, textured compositions that live in the tenuous boundary between the emblematic and the abstract. Kipping is also the founder of ArtTango Art and Advertising Consulting Agency, a successful design firm in The Netherlands, specializing in the development of created corporate identities that are "developed into a creative total concept and implemented in the interior and exterior with digital paintings, photographic images, mosaic and/or stained glass objects" to strengthen a company's image and positioning. ArtTango also develops clearly executed and creatively themed concepts for the private market.