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Lisa
Linch is a sunbeam with a paintbrush in her
hand. Her paintings shout with color and
excitement, yet they are serene and
approachable. She uses color like a group of
musical instruments to make the paintings sing.
With classic painting techniques such as
scumbling and sgraffito, she builds textures and
depths that catch her thoughts and hold them,
fresh and alive, within the picture.
Her images are composed of symbols that she
has developed over a solid career of painting
her memories and ideas. They convey a joyous
spirit of place derived from her childhood
memories of travels to Europe with her father, the
painter and architect Victor Arnold. Influenced
by the images she saw in Italy, the colors in
Florence, the patterns on patterns in Vienna,
Lisa began to find poetry in everything and to
translate what she saw on canvas.
Using oil, acrylic, and collage elements, Lisa
creates landscapes and "tablescapes"
that seem alive and in motion, whimsically
composed and awash in vibrant color. She
includes writings and drawings from her
sketchbooks and journals that are sometimes
used as objects, forming their own patterns, and
creating a subtle interplay between their own
content and that of the objects around them.
She directs a passionate energy into heightening
the emotion and especially the color that makes
the final image breathe with its own vital spark.
"This is my place of happiness. This is where I go
when I paint."
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