LA CREATIVE FINISHES
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FINE ART
About the Artist
Lisa works in both oil and acrylic paints. Although representational, her work tends towards the abstract at times because of her use of expressive line and distillation of color and form. She calls attention to the painting surface by varying mediums and texture with built up layers of paint and pure pigment powder. In her work, she addresses the complexity of human emotions, exploring this theme through the human figure and the portrait. Her latest work explores the natural beauty of the Florida landscape; banyan trees and old oaks are juxtaposed with figures. The paintings are about people, their individual histories and how it takes physical shape. Her work explores the beauty of nature and the frailty of existence, emotions, tension, the individuality and universality of humanity. We are at the same time unique yet part of a greater whole of humanity and the universe, each one of us bearing the weight of our selves and at the same time shaping the universe and falling within the patterns thereof. The Banyan tree becomes a metaphor for the ever-evolving inner self, which weaves and threads through the paths of others, creating, from one source, an entire community, or forest. The network of roots and branches combine to create a visceral, tangled web of intertwining vessels.
