Ah, England where hedgerows thrive!
Offers our birds and nestlings life!
A warm cover in winter, a feast in spring
A simple shrub, a stage, from whence they sing!
- Lisa Mounteer-Watson
HEDGEROW'S BOUNTY
Introducing the art of
Lisa Mounteer-Watson
Semi Abstract and Bird Fine Artist
Who am I?
I am Lisa Mounteer-Watson, a contemporary and abstract intuitive painter who specialises in bird and abstract scenes. I am located in Hampshire, UK.
What do I do?
I'm an oil paint and mixed media artist.
My Background?
I majored in Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1980. Since then I have travelled around the world and have created collections of work for various locations, including hotels and palaces. I specialise in creating art for interior design.
Biography
My paintings represent a sense of a certain ebb and flow to our lives which frequently goes undetected in our thoughts, or in our physical environment. So, for example, we often make choices which have unintended consequences, as if some unseen hand is pointing us in a direction which is totally different to the one we are following. For me, my art is an observatory, a place to explore those invisible energies which shaped our past, which influence the present, and which mould the future. We are but fragments in a universe of so many other fragments, all forming part of an invisible, yet constantly pulsating whole.
I try simply to draw upon those energies to bring some of these fluctuating elements together to illustrate at least part of that whole. In doing this, I often allow the paint to flow where I hadn't intended it to, so that the canvas begins to take on a life of its own. It is as though communication is taking place between artist and canvas, allowing figures, features and spaces to emerge from the unspoken dialogue.
Exhibitions
Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Doha, Qatar (2008)
Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi (2011)
InterContinental, Doha, Qatar (2013-2014)
The Shard, London (2017)
The Base, Newbury (2018)
New Era Theatre, Newbury (2022)
Little Van Gogh, London (2022-)
Yas Hotel, Abu Dhabi
The Ferrari Showroom in Doha
The Qatar Masters Golf
Artissima Gallery, Dubai
The Al Bateen Palace of Sheikha Shamma Bint Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi
The Doha Pearl
Bait Muzna Gallery in Oman
Once upon a time, we shared a Tuscan moonlight,
A reflective glow illuminating our worlds,
Thousands of miles apart,
But shared nonetheless,
And it’s ochre glow hummed down on you,
Just as it would thrum down on me,
Several hours later.
- SuzAnne Wilson Regalia
TUSCAN SUMMER
Embrace the
Bird Art
Emotive scenes of nature's winged denizens recreated from a blend of brush strokes and colour.
What would the world be once bereft,
Of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, of wildness and wet;
Long live the weeks and wilderness left.
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
SPRING FEEDING II
Revel in the
Semi Abstract Art
Shape, colour and form coming together to create mesmeric landscapes.
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
- Joseph Campbell
MANY DOORS OPENING
Enjoy the
Life Drawing Art
Natural form expressed through colour blending and contour of medium strokes.