Lisa Kesler

Art Brokerage: Lisa Kesler American Artist: Lisa has been a full-time artist for almost thirty years. She is a painter and printmaker and she has a BFA in painting from the University of Illinois and an MFA in illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Lisa made the decision to become an artist when several of her drawings and paintings won awards at the Scholastic Art Competition when she was in high school. One of my paintings won the Best of Show award and was placed in the front window of our most prominent downtown department store. Lisa was only eighteen and had never known an artist or had any idea about how artists made a living but she decided that she wanted to be one. So she chose painting as her major at the University of Illinois the following year. Lisa approaches her painting compositions in a very intuitive way, letting them evolve as she works on them. The only part of her abstract paintings that she plans is the size. While she is painting, she mostly think about the interplay of colors, the direction of the marks, and try to find different ways to apply the paint. Lisa likes to work on large canvases most of the time, or oversized heavy printmaking paper. Listings wanted.