Nature is my mentor. This show is inspired by the boldness and limitless transformation that nature knows so well.

Artist Statement

I started to make art in my mid-thirties. I took a few adult education classes.

One class changed everything. Draw whatever you want, however you want. I leaned toward abstraction. It was liberating to make art that was generated by the myriad of emotions that floated on the surface of my life at that time.

How I make art has evolved slowly. The willingness to see colors and shapes in a landscape or on a kitchen counter, or feel a mood or emotion, all rendered through paints, pencils and other materials, are only a few of the infinite filters that land on the surface. I understand that each mark or color choice, or the final painting, is recognized as a moment in time not to be matched by any other moment in time.

My primary pull, as an artist, is to leave an emotional mark, an image or shape that is mysterious and curious, brings joy and beauty. I create art that generates, for me, a feeling of wonder and awe, not unlike life itself.

Biography

Lisa has been exploring her passion for visual art since the mid-1980s while pursuing a separate professional career. She has exhibited in Boston, Santa Fe, Aspen, and San Francisco. Lisa is now a full-time artist. https://lisalightman.com/

These works are guided by my love of the form, color, line, light, texture and space found in nature. Though these paintings are initially inspired by the southwest landscape, my roots in the forms, light and space of coastal California are intertwined.

Artist Statement

Inspired by our emotional connection to the world round us, I’m interested in the forms, textures, space, colors, beauty and transcendent quality of a landscape as a means of connecting to self. Though inspired by nature, I am not necessarily painting a particular place. My attempt is to initiate some level of connection to the beauty and mystery of our world.

I usually begin a painting with reference to some form or pattern from nature that has inspired me but then allow myself to find a way of integrating it into the picture as a whole and in the process, find the picture as I paint it. It becomes a very fluid and centering process. It can be quite intense. It can be quite dark or joyful and it often leads to the unexpected.

My hope is that the viewer will discover something of their own making and accompanying emotional response as I do in the process of painting it.

Biography

Born in California in 1948 and living the majority of his life in northern California, David attended the San Francisco Art Institute where he graduated with a BFA degree. David has exhibited throughout the Bay Area and the Sierra foothills. http://www.davidbrunhofer.com/