Meet Lisa...
"Create a History, Provide Some Mystery, Make Your Mark!"
Essential to the language of Lisa B. Boardwine’s painting is the layering of texture, mark, and color—building a quiet history of surface. Her work emerges from an intuitive, emotionally responsive process, where surfaces hold the essence of special places and captured memories, both near and far. The eroding beauty of ancient architecture, along with the stories embedded within timeworn walls and surfaces, and the emotions evoked from different places, continues to influence her work. Lisa’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Lisa has published three keepsake books: Layers, Marks, History—Selected Paintings in Oil/Cold Wax, Inspiration, Intuition, Image, and Composition, Connection, Creativity. She has also been a contributing artist in Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts & Conversations, Wabi Sabi—Cold Wax Painting, Journeys into Abstraction, and the e-books A Walk into Abstracts—How Did They Do That? (Volumes 4 and 6).
Her work and process have been featured in Art Galleries & Artists of the South, The Woven Tale Press, EA Magazine, A! Magazine for the Arts, and High Country Press. Lisa shares her painting process, tips, and techniques through her YouTube channel and supports artists through her monthly art membership on Patreon.
A recipient of three residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lisa owns and operates Golden Palette Gallery/Studio, where she continues to paint, teach, and explore the expressive possibilities of abstraction.
Examples of My Work
Upcoming Events
The Language of Layers: Discovering Your Artistic Voice in Oil and Cold Wax with Lisa Boardwine
"Let's Go Bigger and Bolder" in Oil/Cold Wax Medium
“Inspired by Nature's Essence - Oil/Cold Wax/Mixed Media”
Fun Facts
If you walk into my studio, the music is probably loud. Rock, blues, jazz-whatever makes me move. Music helps me step into intuition. It quiets the analytical part of my mind and lets feeling lead.
I’m a Dachshund mama and a “Gigi” to a German Shepherd and a Pug. They remind me daily to be playful, present, and curious-all essential qualities in abstraction.
I met Barbara Eden-"I Dream of Jeannie"- in Cocoa Beach at NASA. It felt a little surreal-and I love moments that blur imagination and reality. Magic!
I collect antique skeleton keys, and on my first trip to Italy, I dined beneath a ceiling covered in them. I’m drawn to objects that hold mystery and history — much like layered surfaces.
I spent 27 years on the outdoor art show/festival circuit, it taught me about resilience, connection, and how people respond to emotion in art. And I made great memories!
More About Me
How do you hope people feel when they engage with your art?
I hope viewers feel both curiosity and emotional connection when they engage with my work. My paintings are layered with texture, light, and subtle mark making- including asemic writing-so there is a sense of history embedded in the surface.
I want the work to feel alive-revealing something different over time. Ideally, it brings joy, warmth, and a moment of pause, while inviting the viewer to discover their own meaning within it.
Why do you create?
I create because painting is my language.
Through an intuitive, layered process, I explore memory, atmosphere, and the emotional essence of landscape and place. The act of building and excavating the surface allows me to respond to feeling rather than formula. I create because every layer tells a story-even the ones you can’t see.
Creating is how I translate what I sense-light, texture, energy- into something others can experience in their own way.
Which places, people, or moments inspire you the most?
I’m inspired by moments that feel layered — where time, light, and memory intersect.
Sometimes it’s travel-old walls, worn textures, layered history, the essence of a place.
Sometimes it’s something very quiet-a walk, a sunset, the sense of stillness, a change in season.
If a moment makes me pause or feel something deeply, it eventually finds its way into my work.
