Discover Artful Living Through Treasures that Inspire
May 15, 2026
Laura Lippay’s artwork is bold, expressive and just a little rebellious, somewhat like her own journey in life.
Laura has lived at 26 addresses, and now the artist behind Laura Lippay Art doesn’t have one. She shares a 30-foot Airstream travel trailer with her cat, Ozzy, and splits time between the Poconos and western Florida. Her art studio is a tent.
“I can’t stay still,” Laura says. “I’m always learning. First, I was learning how to paint, and now I’m learning how to paint outside.”
As charming as that sounds, it’s incredibly challenging, especially with unpredictable weather shifts. Wind can make a mess of things in a hurry. Cold weather gear is a must. But Laura embraces it all.
“I took the bedroom out and made it a print shop,” she says.
Laura wanted to study art straight out of high school but wasn’t encouraged.
“Everybody tells you that you can’t make money,” she says.
A few college classes in, Laura dropped out to rollerblade for a promotional company, a job that led to more skating in Boston. Next came a two-year gig with Ringling Bros., as part of its finale act. After that, Laura returned to college at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and studied multimedia, which set her up for a career in Silicon Valley.
It was a cutting-edge time when the dot.com bubble was booming.
Laura was in on the ground floor of search engine optimization, and for more than a decade, fulfilled. She worked for Yahoo and traveled internationally as part of a speaker circuit. By 2014 she grew tired of that lifestyle.
Four years later, “I decided I wanted to use my right brain again,” she says.
Laura has seemingly forever lugged around two halves of a ping-pong table that was set to be trashed. She chose those panels for her initial canvases and experimented with oil pastels, followed by acrylics.
She maintained a job at Netflix and discovered a community of artists in the Poconos that were mentors and friends. Though she finally got into a gallery with her work, she longed to form her identity in the art world.
“Those were my years of discovery,” Laura said.
A collaborative gallery in Milford, Pennsylvania invited her to become a member, and Laura made a plan to quit her job in favor of showing at art fairs in 2025. Only the timeline was interrupted when she got laid off in 2024. She sold her house and took a year to figure out a professional path.
More experimentation led to the depth that defines her painting along with the bold strokes and three-dimensional texture.
“The last thing that I tried was the palate knife,” she said. “Man, I’m so glad I did. It’s so fun.”
That was the game changer she needed. “I found something that I liked to do, and people liked it, too,” Laura says. Her work began selling as fast as she could make it.
Her work is stunning. She excels at creating abstract landscapes that are vibrant and lively, and the texture is inviting to touch.
That process honed her skills in composition and color, yet Laura is eager to continue dabbling while exploring painting and layering. Many of her best-selling pieces resulted from planning everything out beforehand following a deliberate set of steps.
Not surprisingly, Laura is interested in a more spontaneous approach.
“I want to paint layers and layers until I like it,” she says. “I want it to be play. My energy is play. I want to go for it and see what happens.”
Laura looks forward to exhibiting her work and meeting new friends at Rose Squared Art Shows. Her 2026 slate includes Verona Park (May 16-17), Spring Chester Craft Show (May 30-31) and Spring Brookdale Park (June 20-21).
