Lisa McShane
Oil on Linen & Wood Panel · Rivers, Lakes and Light
Lisa McShane paints the deep waters, rivers, forests, and land of the Pacific Northwest and the intermountain West. Her great-grandparents on both sides were settlers near the Columbia and Snake Rivers in eastern Washington, and she grew up hearing family stories about how the Columbia used to be. Her father was in the Air Force; her earliest drawings were of the roads and mountains she saw on road trips home to Connell. She began oil painting at twelve, when her mother enrolled her in Saturday lessons at Herr Ludwig's studio near Ramstein Air Base in Germany — and Saturdays are still dedicated to painting today.
