Kip Richmond
Kip is an award winning artist and illustrator. His art has been published as fine art prints, conservation stamps, best-selling children’s books, puzzles and educational tools.
Kip is known for his realistic portrayals of wildlife and waterfowl in their natural habitats. Awards for his work, include: the Oregon Duck Stamp, the Wyoming Habitat Stamp and the Oregon Upland Bird Stamp.
The Magic Christmas Key, (written by Leann Smith and illustrated by Kip Richmond), won the Gold Mom’s Choice award in 2014 and the Independent Publisher Book Award for Best Holiday Book for 2015.
His fine art works incorporates a realistic style with romantic overtures that include people, wildlife, nature and architecture together in one world.
Kip works in acrylic, oils, watercolor, pencils and digital art.
Artist Statement
I have a wide-range of influences, including the Victorian Realists, Fredrick Leighton, J.W. Waterhouse, and Lawrence AlmaTadama; as well as the early 20th Century Illustrators, N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell and J.C. Leyendecker. Several Contemporary wildlife artists continue to impress me with their artistic representations of wildlife: Robert Bateman, Carl Brenders and Terry Isaac among others.
My goal in painting is to represent the world, not in its harsh reality, but as an idyllic world. I really like the World English Dictionary’s definition of Ideaism:
Idealism: the tendency to represent things in their ideal forms, rather than as they are. (World English Dictionary )
I enjoy painting a preferred world, where humans, fauna, flora, architecture and the elements of nature cohabit in unison. With so much pain in the world I hope to evoke tranquility, order, beauty, and goodness.
