Still Life

JANE PIPER, 1916-1991

"I was never conscious of painting representationally or not painting representationally. I was always involved in spacial forms, which naturally lead you somewhat into abstraction. You have to handle your responses to what you're seeing. I was putting down what I saw and how I felt about what I found as connecting links."

"Observers should feel that the act of painting was effortless – that it happened, it just happened, which of course, is not true."[4] A few years later she said, "Painting is a pleasure, even though painful. It will always be a pleasure for me, because it is the thing I want to do the most."

William P. Scott (November 1978). "Continuity and Change: Conversations with Jane Piper". American Artist. 42 (436). Billboard Publications, Inc.: 76–80, 122–124.

Ralph Cipriano (1991-08-10). "JANE PIPER, 74; ART CAREER SPANNED 50 YEARS". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Penn. p. 38.