Lipman Designs

About Lipman Designs

 

Terri Lipman, who currently resides in Keene, New Hampshire, has been selling and creating her folk art, trump l’oeil accessories, painted gift-ware and textile art for 29 years.

 

Terri Lipman has a BFA but uses her college education in the use of color, design, display costume and architecture when creating the pieces of art. “Working with my hands keeps me happy”, she says.

 

From 1977 to 1993 Terri and her husband, Henry managed the family business known as “Lipman Designers.” Terri designed the gift and decorative accessories and managed the painting employees. Henry charmed the buyers for sales and oversaw the worldwide distribution. In 1994, Terri choose to end the majority of the wholesale business in an effort to concentrate on her artist venues.

Fiber and mixed media are the passion of Terri Lipman.  She starts with a blank cloth, canvas or synthetic substrate and builds the images using textile dyes, paints, photography, embroidery, paints, etc.   These art images are used in collages or art wearables.

 

About the Artist:

Terri Lipman has been a state juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen (having lived in PA for 25 years). In 2002, Terri became a juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. She chaired the Pennsylvania Christmas Craft Market for four years, as a member of the PGC. She has been President of the Lancaster Designer –Craftsmen, the founder and President of Keystone Painters of the National Society of Decorative Painters, Chairwoman of Keystone Painters mini convention in 1985. For the National Society of Decorative Painters Terri has served on the Education Committee.

 

Terri holds membership in the Surface Design Association (having been a board member until 2009), the Sharon Art Center, the Fiber Art Center, Studio Art Quilt Associates, Walpole (NH) Artisan Cooperative and more. In 1986 Terri was honored with a Judges Citation for her excellence in hand painted furniture, during the WITF (PBS) auction in Hershey, PA. For five years she was active with the Business Expo of York County, PA.

 

Many magazines have published Terri Lipman’s work: GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, HOME MAGAZINE, TRADITIONAL HOME to mention a few. COUNTRY NOTEBOOK, COUNTRY SAMPLER, LANDFALL COLLECTION, SUNDANCE CATALOG AND BALLARD DESIGNS are a few of the catalogs to sell her work. In 1996, Terri was featured with a hand painted glass platter on QVC. In 2011, Terri created several textile designs for CT Publishing.

 

Terri Lipman has exhibited her fiber work at the Cambridge Artist Coop juried wearable art show, The PYRO Surface Design Association show, Louisville, KY, Jaffrey (NH) Civic Center Fall Art Show, Paste Up in Lowell, MA, and in member shows of the Keene Art Association, the Walpole Artisan Cooperative, the Sharon Art Center and the Fiber Art Center. Her textiles have been sold through various quilt and textile related shows in the Northeast.

 

Lipman’s handcrafted works have been collected worldwide: Saudi Arabia, Japan, Canada, Bahrain and more. Currently, Terri Lipman teaches freeform knitting and crochet, as well as painted textiles at the Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH, Fiber Art Center, Amherst, MA and other local venues.