2026 Calendar
Inspiration
Whether painting from pure imagination, from photographs or en plein air, Lawrence enjoys covering diverse surfaces from canvases to furniture with her colorful, spiritually inspired, exuberant work, designed either to soothe or to motivate action.
Born in East Liverpool, Ohio on the Ohio River in 1950, I moved with my family to New Jersey when I was twelve, knowing since five that I wanted to be an artist. After getting a B.A. in Studio/Applied Art at Goucher College in 1972, I went on to do some post graduate study at The Maryland Institute, College of Art, including a brief stint at The Hoffberger Graduate School of Painting. Since I loved the process of making art yet never felt fully synced with the established career path on the East Coast, it was easy, in 1982, for visions of the Southwest to uproot me and bring me to New Mexico, where I felt "home."
Happily, I concluded my time in Baltimore with a show at The Grimaldis Gallery, distinguished punctuation to the transition from familiar grounds to an expanding unknown. I soon bought a truck and headed out with camping gear to The Land of Enchantment.
While living in various areas of the State, including Las Vegas, I have maintained New Mexico as my home ever since. I continue to find the open skies, broad landscapes and peaking mountains conducive to stretching myself beyond personal, previously accepted boundaries both in creating art and in learning about life itself.
Specifications
- Local Taos Photographer
- LISA PORTER LAWRENCE has been a working artist and art consultant for over fifty years.
- She has witnessed and deliberately exercised art's influence in a variety of environments and with a diverse clientele.
Enjoying approaching new territories the same as a blank canvas that excites her imagination, Lawrence has transformed many spaces according to the intentions of her clients.
