Jeremy Lipking is a highly acclaimed American realist painter. In March he completed his anticipated, one-man show, at The Legacy Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Entitled Silence & Sagebrush, the exhibition showcased 19 of Lipking’s oil paintings representing figures standing before the serene expanse of warmly lit landscapes. Jeremy Lipking depicts the natural world with an acute sensitivity. His love of the outdoors is voiced through his works of art. With expert use of color, value, and composition, the earth in its untouched forms seems to flawlessly emerge through Lipking’s brushstrokes. You may experience a gentle reprieve, as if walking though the foothills of the magnificent Sierras, when you look at one of his paintings. The painting “Moonrise Over the Vermilion” depicts a figure wrapped in a fawn colored blanket, standing in the middle of a dry field with a glowing purple dusk mountain far in the distance, and the subtlest hint …