Lisa's Resume Lisa England, watercolor/pen and ink artist, has been drawing since she was a small child. She has taught art to all ages from 4 year old preschoolers to retiree’s. Lisa is currently teaching a Beginning to Intermediate Drawing class at The Southside Art League where she is a gallery member with several paintings on display. She also teaches Visual Communications to Juniors and Seniors at J. Everett Light Career Center in the Washington Township School district of Indianapolis. Her own education in Art started in advanced art classes during high school and continued as an adult with a degree in Graphic Design, Lisa has also studied drawing at Herron School of Art as well as lessons in watercolor taught by Beverly Mathis. Her favorite medium is watercolor with pen and ink. Lisa has been invited to participate in the 42nd Annual Skokie Art Guild’s Art Festival, Chautauqua of the Arts,and is also participating in "Bridging Cultures" which is exchanging local artist’s work with artists from Magnac-Laval, France. Lisa has successfully competed in several shows during her college years and after, including several Honorable Mentions and recently winning both first and second place in the Will Vawter Juried Art Competition. While a student she won design categories, displayed at the Commons Mall in Columbus, Indiana, designed a logo for Columbus North High School and was chosen to design the Annual Report for Ivy Tech State College. She has also completed and is available for commissioned pieces. Artist Statement As an artist I feel both passionate and open when creating a new painting. I believe it frees the soul, and as an artist I’m both blessed and cursed. Blessed because I get to feel the joy and closeness to my subject, cursed because it at times controls me. I most enjoy watercolor with pen and ink and have such fun pushing the two together to accomplish the detail I feel and see. The horses I paint have so many different personalities it is a great joy to capture their differences. I hope the people who see my paintings experience atleast a part of the peace they bring me. That’s my dream as an artist. Please be my guest and enjoy them.