Lisa Linch

Lisa Linch is a Romantic Modernist whose work has been acquired by collectors across the country. She sets a table filled with metaphor and promise, writing her thoughts directly on the canvas and surrounding them with newspapers, tickets, stamps and mementos from the real world. These canvases are saturated with an unsentimental nostalgia for certain cities of the heart. As a child, Linch accompanied her father to art classes at the Chicago Art Institute and the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence,Italy, where she sat on the floor with her little sketchbook and worked diligently. She also developed her lifelong habit of keeping sketchbook journals. Later, the two forms merged and art and literature became one discipline. She does not leave apainting until it has a certain rich quality. "I know it needs depth and above all, life - motion, loose edges, sparkle and refraction," she says. "A rhythm develops in the way I play with color and passages lead you in and out of the canvas."

Lisa Linch Images:
Cafe Tipitina
Dance And Make Romance
Heartstrings I
Heartstrings II