User:Kay Lipton

Kay Lipton (talk) 06:49, 10 June 2016 (UTC)Kay Lipton is an ARTIST who knew no bounds. She was never concerned about feminist rights because she was never hampered by `the glass ceiling' in the workplace as many women complain of. Her long career has taken many turns, and she has worked all over the world as an observant artist. Born in 1923 in London, she now lives in Australia and at 93 is still active in the art world. Her book `A Life of ART and PASSION' has just been published in its amended form. She is best known for her unique commissions when she was living in Uganda, wife of a scientist husband, Dr. Anthony Lipton, Senior Lecturer in the Makerere College Medical School on the 1950's. Her work was already known from her fame in designing the Lyons Corner House Windows in London which outclassed the Selfridges windows at Christmas time, and stopped the traffic in Coventry Street out side of the Coventry Street Corner House. All under the derestriction of Mr. Norman Joseph, the Director of the Corner Houses in London, In Uganda, East Africa, she and her family went to live in Kampala. Dr. Anthony Lipton, a research Scientist, took up his lectureship in 1954, thus Kay Lipton was `headhunted' to work for the British High Commission on many different art projects. One of which was eight wall murals for the new Entebbe Airport of that era. Subsequently, closed after the daring hostage rescue by the Israelis, of people who were being kept in that airport by Idi Amin, the leader of Uganda at that time. In the happier days when Uganda was under the British Protectorate, Kay Lipton was instrumental in designing posters to encourage the local farmers to grow their crops, using safe pesticides for better results. She was invited by one of the Chiefs to paint a Loyal Address on the surface of a Royal Drum to be presented to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 11 when she visited with the Duke of Edinburgh in the 1950's going up the Kazinga Channel in a Royal Launch. There is much more information about this woman artist in Google.com about how her busy career progressed in Australia.