Country: United States

Lisa Mee is an Irish-Korean-American life-long artist who lives and works in New York City. She studied drawing, painting and printmaking which continued through her college years at Fordham University. Soon after, she met her husband-to-be, the artist, Wayne Ensrud, who is the only living protégée of the great Expressionist Austrian artist, Oskar Kokoschka. Ensrud encouraged and mentored Lisa’s painting explorations and experiments in ‘plein-air’ drawing and painting techniques. Her palette became enlarged by collage elements as well as metallic paints to open new creative possibilities and develop her own unique style. In addition to metallic paints, her impasto application lends a sculptural, luminous effect to her art. She transforms familiar vistas by using borders and spatial differentiations, combining them into stunning interpretations of bold colors with immediate emotional impact. Her extensive travels abroad in Spain, Italy and France inspired many of her expansive landscape compositions. Her uniquely opulent artform conveys a stained-glass effect of mosaic-like patterns and light on canvas. Her unique mixed media approach has caught the eyes of important art collectors in New York City as well as Europe where her works are found in numerous corporate and private collections. She has participated in over 20 solo and group exhibitions where her work has been shown in galleries in New York, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, West Palm Beach, California, Vermont as well as her first solo exhibition at the International Art Museum of America in San Francisco in March 2020.

Lisa Mee

Hiroshi Yamaoka

Yanko Yankov for StrYctYre Paintings