Emotional Impact

Malcolm Liepke has decades of painting experience, emerging from a career in illustration in the 1980s to become a fine artist whose distinct style is often emulated but never matched.

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Field of Color, oil on canvas, 42 x 36"

Collected at a high level, you can spot a Liepke from across the room. There is no mistaking his dynamic, buttery brushstrokes, his bold—one might say fearless— use of color, and the intensity his figures exude, whether in a moment of tranquility or engaging the viewer with a penetrating gaze.

Liepke’s work is deeply informed by the master figurative painters of the 19th century, notably John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez and James McNeill Whistler, and has assimilated elements of each artist’s particular genius into his own paintings, while making them completely his own.

Resting with Child, oil on canvas, 16 x 12"