Lisa Froment Art

Jamaica Plain artist Lisa Froment Pushing the Envelope of Color at Agora Gallery NYC
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The New England coastline is the main inspiration for Lisa Froment's paintings. "I am drawn to the coast where storms, the sun, and clouds await interpretation," says the artist, who grew up near the beaches of Rhode Island. In her images those interpretations have a bold presence. She is sensitive to many textures — from clouds in a sunlit or stormy sky to the brightly painted hulls of boats. By applying her paints with both brushes and palette knives, she heightens the effect of those textures and gives each image's surface a powerful energy.

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Working in watercolor and oils, Froment experiments with color and light, creating patterns that both capture the physical aspects of each environment and transform that environment into a visual statement. She enjoys using non-traditional colors for water and sky in her images, seeing it as a way to "push the envelope of color." But her experimentation is always at the service of presenting a world that the artist finds beautiful on its own. "Mother Nature inspires me," she says, "because she has never painted a bad canvas."