Lisa Dear Artworks

Welcome to Lisa Dear Artworks Welcome to Lisa Dear Artworks. This site gives you the opportunity to view and purchase original art work and prints by Lisa Dear. Many of the original designs are also available in greeting cards and writing sets.

Flowers and organic forms feature heavily in all aspects of my work abstracting and depicting movement from a small snap shot of time. I work to enhances the shapes and patterns through my use of texture and layering of paint. This difference in depth also helps to define the highlights and shadows of my chosen subject matter bringing the painting to life.

My commission work has broadened my style and allowed me to experiment with new subjects and techniques which I would otherwise not have considered. I feel that these new challenges continually add to the development of my paintings. Look on the commission page for examples.

Intoducing the Artist - Lisa Dear                       I began my Art training at Somerset College of Art and Technology with a BTEC National Diploma in General Art and Design. I finished this in July 1994 and went on to study for a BA(Hons) Degree in Visual Arts at De Montfort University in Leicester.

On completing my degree in 1997 I followed a path into retail and used my flare for visual colour and design in merchandising and window dressing. After ten years I missed painting and time in the studio but now have the opportunity to concentrate on it full time.

Inspiration for me comes from the plants with their scent, a change in the weather or the seasons. All these observations use my passion for colour and shape and have always been at the heart of my work, my paintings work less with realism  in nature and more with the creation of sculptural forms that are made between the outlines.