Lisa Elley

Lisa is an award-winning artist, working from her studio in the San Francisco Bay, and has a 12-year international reputation exhibiting in major galleries in the USA

As a professional artist, her vision with her art is clear; To share her gift, and spread joy with her happy paintings.

Lisa’s pieces are uplifting, colorful and highly textured palette knife oil paintings, mostly inspired by nature. Hundreds of her pieces hang with private and corporate collectors worldwide. When one of her collectors tells her that their painting lifts their heart every time they walk in their door, it touches her heart, and inspires her too.

Lisa combines her passion for her childhood homeland New Zealand, and her love of the diversity of California, to create colorful and mesmerizing oil paintings in a unique and intriguing contemporary style she calls Deep Impasto.

It takes a very talented and accomplished artist to use a painting or palette knife. This technique is unique, as the paint is applied very thickly, adding textured highlights with a beautiful sense of light and movement. Combined with this is Lisa’s outstanding ability to capture with her knife the incredible detail and personal elements that will resonate with your subconscious, and transport you into her colorful world of visual transcendence.

Bachelor of Arts,
Auckland University

2013 Art Gallery 21 Florida Annual Fine Art Competition, Landscape Category Finalist
2014 Artist’s Haven Gallery International Art Award Honorable Mention
2014 Artist’s Haven Gallery International Art Award Landscapes First Place
2017 SFWA Winner - San Francisco Women Artists Banner Competition ‘Art in the Inner Sunset’ (Extra-large-format banners displayed on street lights in San Francisco for several years)
2018 SFWA Winner - San Francisco Women Artists Banner Competition ‘Vibrant Vision’.
(Extra-large-format banners displayed on street lights in San Francisco for several years)

Online courses at www.lisaelley.com

2022: Chosen by jury to participate in Singulart’s ‘ Best American Landscape Artists’ Exhibition.

2022: Curated into Artfinder’s ‘Best of February’.

2022: Adelman Fine Art Gallery 2 exhibitions.

2021: Adelman Fine Art Gallery 4 exhibitions.

2020: Adelman Fine Art Gallery 4 exhibitions.

2019: Adelman Fine Art Gallery 4 exhibitions.

2018: SFWA San Francisco Women Artists Gallery 2 Exhibitions

2018 Represented by Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego. Participated in 4 annual Exhibitions.

2017: SFWA San Francisco Women Artists Gallery 2 Exhibitions

Kiwis in LA Group Show 2017

Ugallery Inaugural Group Show March 2017

Kiwis in LA Show 2016

Savannah Chanelle Vineyard Show 2015

Kiwis in LA Group Show 2014

Prince gallery group show 2014

RAW San Francisco 2014

Courbet, Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh

california, san francisco, palette knife, texture, colorful, landscape