Meet Lisa Fellerson

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lisa Fellerson. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lisa below.

Hi Lisa , appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

Understanding and seeing how a dramatic life shift has helped me see not just my painting but my life in a new light. Moving from a city studio in New York to a nature infused studio in Wisconsin has created a whole new sensibility and feeling into my painting. Life changes and the work changes with it. Change is an agent to becoming resilient.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

I am an abstract painter who works with acrylic paint and watercolor mediums on both canvas and archival papers. I explore, layer, and innovate abstract shapes and organic forms. My work is lead by spontaneity, exploration, and esprit. What is exciting to me about abstract painting is how the work reveals itself as shapes shift and coalesce about the canvas eventually distilling themselves into balance. In the past few years, I have been included in exhibitions in Paris, Zürich, New York, Miami, and Seoul, South Korea. My work can be found in private collections in the U.S. as well as Europe and Abu Dhabi, UAE. I have been commissioned by Ralph Lauren Corporation and received a grant from the Pollack Krasner Foundation. It’s exciting to connect with different parts of the world through my painting.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I think it’s essential to have a dedicated work space, or for an artist a studio space that is organized and free from distractions is essential. It doesn’t have to be an expensive rented space, it can be a corner in your home that you create as your own space. Working in small increments of time is as productive as spending hours on a painting. The amount of time is not important it’s what reveals itself within the time we dedicate to it. For artists early in their career, I believe consistency is important. Life is full of distractions, but carving out and dedicating time to your work is a skill learned over time. Results happen from being consistent.

Any advice for folks feeling overwhelmed?

We can become overwhelmed not just by the obvious life distractions, but also by putting too much pressure on ourselves and forcing outcomes. Stopping when we feel overwhelmed and doing something else for a while or take a break and do nothing at all.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.lisafellerson.com
• Instagram: @lisafellerson
• Other: My work can be viewed on Artsy.net and 1stdibs.com and is available at Susan Eley Fine Art, New York.