"ART IS A TOOL BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH!" Jacqueline Ripstein

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art". (Leonardo da Vinci)

Garden of the Prophets (c)
1982 Jacqueline Ripstein

Internationally celebrated Master Artist, Jacqueline Ripstein, has for 36 years been delivering powerful creative and inspirational fine art masterpieces to the world.

Ms. Ripstein has been featured at over 360 art shows globally, gaining her the distinction of being called "The Artist of the New Millennium" and the "Metaphysical Dali." Ms. Ripstein was born in Mexico City, Mexico. At the age of 12, she had won an award at the prestigious Eagle Prismacolor national contest in Mexico.

By the age of 19, self- taught, she was producing nationally recognized masterpieces that already displayed her tendency for inspirational and soul-searching surrealist images.

As her work evolved, international art critics from Spain, France, Mexico, & the U.S, praised her work &compared Ms. Ripstein's work to some of art history's most important masters such as Michaelangelo, Dali and Hieronimus van Akeken (known as "El Bosco").

Her award-winning masterpieces can be found in select private and corporate collections throughout the world, including Margaret Thatcher's personal private collection, the Presidential Collection in her native Mexico.

"Jacqueline Ripstein anxious and hopeful to discover the "Divine light" in her paintings she experimented hours and hours. Her paintings demonstrate a dramatic change. Under natural light, the images are alive and cheerful, and under the black light they are mysterious figures, a fundamental key to unraveling the sublime message that each portrays."

It was without a doubt a genuine discovery. A value added of course, to the artistic value of each painting.

It brings to mind the expressionist surrealism that was characterized by the Flamenco artist, Hironimus Van Akeken (known as El Bosco). With his anarchic and cunning compositions and mocking attitudes, he intrigued.

There is absolute agreement between Jacqueline's art and human regression to the level of spiritual values. She is a master of amiable drawings.

She treats light with uncommon diversity, her sensibility and knowledge culminates in the internal harmony of her paintings and in the delicacy of her palette..."

by Antonio Cobos April 1992. Co-Founder of the Spanish Art Critics Society (AECA) Member of the International Association: "Asociación Internationale des Critiques D'Art".