Intimate Landscapes

Intimate Landscapes brings together a body of paintings and prints that explore the relationship between place, memory, and imagination. Drawing from the landscapes of Donegal, Dublin, County Kildare, and locations transformed through memory, Daniel Lipstein creates environments that move between direct observation and inner experience. Working across painting and printmaking, Lipstein builds each work through layered surfaces that carry both physical presence and emotional weight. His recurring visual language—fish, levitation, birds, and solitary figures—does not function as illustration but as symbolic forms that invite multiple interpretations. As the artist explains: "Imaginary or real, each painting and etching expresses intimacy, either of a connection to a place or of an idea, which the place serves in my effort to express it visually." Throughout the exhibition, fish suggest ancient knowledge, the unconscious, and the unknown, while moments of levitation suggest transcendence and the emotional experience of being within a landscape rather than simply observing it. Reflecting on his approach, Lipstein writes: "Levitation is another element in my work, which I explore in some of these paintings. It marks transcendence and inserts into a landscape my intimate feeling of the experience, either being there or painting it, or both." Rather than documenting places, Intimate Landscapes presents landscapes as psychological and symbolic spaces, where observation, memory, and imagination merge into a deeply personal visual world.