About the Artist, by Stacey Ferreira
LISA LINE, born March 18, 1973, grew up in Carlisle, PA. Her God given artistic skills were developed at an early age. During her childhood years she was always creating and making crafts. Her mind was filled with fascinating ideas on what projects she would create. Lisa received her associate's degree in Specialized Technology while majoring in Graphic Design at Bradley Academy of the Visual Arts in 1995. As a young adult she expanded her horizons and became owner and operator of her interior decorating business, “Lisa Line Design”, serving residential customers on a referral basis. Lisa left this earth on March 5, 2023, to be with her Heavenly Father.

Her experiences led to a vast knowledge in many different fields. She came with a great deal of organization, versatility, and commitment. Learning came to her very quickly and she adapted to most any situation. Pride showed in her ability to work with individuals on all levels and in various fields. Lisa possessed the desire and capability to work beyond expected parameters to achieve personal and professional goals.

Keeping the best interest of her clients was at the forefront of her daily routine. She felt she had a lot of favorable traits that would be great assets to their organization or their homes and looked forward to reaping the rewards together.

Fascination, beauty, and love are all characteristics with which Lisa encompassed into her paintings and everyday designs. Her unique eye would catch not just the picturesque scene, but also, the deep beauty and spirit within the subjects she painted.  Maybe that was the reason she reluctantly painted only one commissioned artwork for a family. She commented that she liked to paint what she wanted and was entranced with shadows and textures around her.  Her subjects and designs were magnetic to her, which attracted her heart that led her mind and hands to permanently place the image on canvas or in another permanent fixture. 

Texture: Her interest in textures is very evident in many of her detailed paintings of a straw hat, laced fabric, and quaint
details.  While many artists would avoid complex subjects, or if attempted would paint broad strokes in lieu of fine strokes. Lisa instead, patiently applied various sized brushes to the canvas to capture the true 3D texture on a 2D medium.  

 

Shadows:  Lisa was also intrigued by shadows. Being her sister, I thought maybe she would find one of my four children enticing to paint. However, despite thousands of photos, none had the shadows or lights that would spike her desire to paint them. Instead, she found shadows and images in a few other life encounters.  Even when she painted still life, she had a light that would be at an angle to capture the shadows and light reflection. She painted the light shining on them, which fascinates me. For Lisa, if you knew her in real life, was a beacon of sunshine herself.  She had a glow about her and as in all life, she also had a shadow that followed her.   We can never escape our shadows, but we can always choose to be a bright in our attitude.

 

Okay back to her paintings and off the subject of philosophy. 

Eyes: Lisa had special painting techniques to enhance textures. She also painted to bring a subject’s eyes to life.  In the San Francisco Fire Fighter and Mr. Phinney, the eyes catch everyone’s attention, and it brings realism to the forefront. Again, it goes back to that magnetic draw that captured Lisa’s attention to paint the subject. 

Her love of P’s:  Enjoying the various shapes and sizes of pumpkins and pears was another fetish of hers.  Especially pumpkins which she only painted a few times, but created 3-D as fabric pumpkins with her own dyed material as well.  She was drawn to warm colors and many of her paintings exquisitely show her ability to bring out beautiful oranges and reds.

 

 While it is easier to do with oil paints, she continued to mostly use acrylics and amaze other artists with her strength in bringing out the oranges.  

Like Norman Rockwell, she drew and painting figures and images to scale. While one eye may be larger than the other, or the hand larger because it’s closer to the observer than the body, she maintained the real image in front of her.  She did not embellish abstract elements or cover uniqueness. Instead, Lisa painted the realism of the subject at the angle from which she observed the subject.  So, if you are the subject in her painting;  what she painted is not a flaw. Rather it is the uniqueness of you and your inner beauty that makes you, you. 

Lisa wanted to share that beauty with others through her artwork.