Western Canadian Landscapes by Lisa Printz
Lisa Printz is a Vancouver-based artist who works in a number of mediums including oil, pastels, encaustic and acrylics. Her western Canadian landscapes are rich and layered with colour.
Cotignac Poppies, chalk pastel
Lisa’s decadent oil paintings are made with large, textural brush strokes in colours that perfectly balance blending with contrast. Her subjects are mostly pastoral prairie scenes but her body of work also includes some references to her time spent in London and Monaco.
Recently Lisa has been using encaustic wax in her works, which allows for a notable layered effect, showing off the artist’s rendering skill. I find Lisa’s use of line art in her watercolour works particularly charming. Sketchy, loose black lines are layered over her splashy painted buildings, adding a wonderful illustrative character to the images. Lisa also works with pastels to create drawings that mimic classical impressionism in both style and subject matter.
