Lisa Guyton

Watercolor and ink

11.5" x 16"

Lisa Guyton has had a lifelong relationship with making things, starting as a young child and continuing through college, graduate school and 20+ years of teaching art. Sheholds a MFA in painting from American University in Washington, D.C. A majorinfluence was her experience working at the Phillips Collection, a private museum in Washington, D.C. featuring post-impressionist and modernist work.
Lisa finds inspiration in nature. It might be the way light creates depth and color
changes on the petals of a flower. It might be the filigree lines of a branch against the sky. It might be the arrangement of buildings in a landscape. Whatever the inspiration, she wants to capture that excitement and feeling in her work.
Her connection to nature and observation often results in realistic images. Working
directly in front of the subject through still life, landscape or the model provides her with endless challenges. She aims to express the essence of the subject with the least amount of fussiness.
Lisa's art practice also includes experimentation with materials. From this
experimentation and free approach she creates expressive work that relies more on internal rather than external responses.
She maintains an art studio at the Urban Art Collective in Chamblee, Georgia. Her
drawings and paintings have been exhibited in Atlanta, Gainesville, Washington, D.C.
and Connecticut.