About LISA

Lisa Izquierdo was born in Manchester, England in 1975 of a Spanish father and English mother. Her creative strengths emerged at an early age, strongly underpinned by natural forces, the human form and, above all by the powerful energy released by human relationships.

She has followed the need to create in her paintings and drawings from a very early age. She now works in her studio in Altrincham, Manchester.

MY ART

“The true strength of a woman is our ability to allow ourselves to be vulnerable.”

Life can be challenging. When I paint I confront and explore the feelings, emotions, excitements and depressions that we all face.

So why do I paint? Why does a poet write poetry? Why does a musician play, compose? I think of it along with Ellen Altfest: “It’s something I’m driven to do. I’d like to make something that is both of its time and that stands outside it.”

Life is sometimes dark. When painting I try to find the speck of light and life that I know exists. I find the light in nature, in the pattern of a texture which informs a canvas, in the human form, in the forces which bind a man and a woman.

Images develop as I work. I use acrylics, oils, inks, texture paste, sands – my paintings develop as I allow the medium to express itself!

Much of my painting develops into abstraction – but always with a hold, however tenuous, on reality, on the magical world which surrounds us – even on the relationships which inform our lives.

Picasso once said, “There is no abstract art. You must always work with something. Afterwards you can remove all traces of reality”. The things I work with are natural forms – the hint of a leaf, the curve of a breast, the pattern which ripples across a stretch of sand. I work through contradictions – seeking to unify the Yin and the Yang – to find that speck of light which I know is there. I struggle to discover and reveal it in my painting.