Jeff Ripple is an oil painter who creates fine contemporary realist paintings in the Luminist and Hudson River School traditions honoring North American landscapes.  Some of the contemporary painters that have influenced him are Joseph McGurl and Erik Koeppel.  A few of the Masters that have made an impression on Jeff are Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt and Asher Durand. 
His fellow artists that have been of immeasurable help on his road to authenticity include Clyde Butcher, Richard Currier and his wife, Susan Currier.  You can find his work on his website here and available work that I have in my gallery here.
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