Lisa Boardwine
About Lisa
Lisa B. Boardwine is an abstract painter working primarily in oil and cold wax, as well as acrylic and mixed media. She is a Signature Member of the Virginia Watercolor Society and a Signature Artist Member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society. Lisa teaches workshops throughout the eastern United States and is known for an intuitive, emotionally responsive approach to painting.
Travel plays an important role in her work, with the spirit of place serving as an ongoing source of inspiration. Her paintings emerge from an intuitive, emotionally responsive practice—one that seeks to capture the essence of landscape and nature through memory, atmosphere, and feeling. Through layered surfaces, expressive mark making, and altered textures, Lisa explores the landscape not as a literal place, but as an experience remembered and felt.
Lisa is the author of three keepsake art books: Layers, Marks, History: Selected Paintings in Oil & Cold Wax, Inspiration, Intuition, Image, and Composition, Connection, Creativity. Her work has also been featured in A Walk into Abstracts—How Did They Do That? (Volumes 4 and 6), as well as the books Wabi Sabi: Cold Wax Painting and Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts & Conversations.
She is a three-time recipient of residency/fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Lisa owns Golden Palette Gallery & Studio. She offers in-person workshops, a long-distance mentoring program, online courses, a monthly art membership through Patreon, and a YouTube channel.
Her work is represented by several galleries and arts centers and is held in private and corporate collections nationally and internationally.
You can view Lisa’s work at:
www.lisabboardwinefineart.com
www.patreon.com/lisabboardwine
www.facebook.com/lisaboardwine
www.instagram.com/lisaboardwineart
Class Details
The Inner Glow: Creating Light Through Layered Abstraction
In this class, we will explore how to create light that feels internal and enduring—light that emerges through layers, rather than sitting on the surface. Using oil paint and cold wax medium, we’ll begin with glowing base colors, establishing a warm foundation that carries light throughout the painting.
From there, we’ll build multiple layers using texture, mark making, scraping, veiling, and selective subtraction. Emphasis will be placed on responding intuitively to what appears, allowing earlier passages to re-emerge and contribute to a rich history of surface. We will learn how to preserve luminosity while developing depth, atmosphere, and abstracted form.
This class is ideal for painters interested in abstraction, abstracted landscape and expressive, intuitive, process-driven work. The focus is on learning how to build light from within—creating paintings that feel layered, alive and quietly radiant.
The Quiet Power of Color: Building a Harmonious Palette
Focus on Palette, Value, and Unity
This class is centered on developing a harmonious palette as a foundation for strong abstract paintings. We’ll explore how color relationships and value structure work together to unify a surface, even as layers are built, scraped back, and reworked.
You’ll learn strategies for limiting and expanding a palette, creating grays and various values from your chosen colors, and using these to connect all areas of a painting. The emphasis will be on intuitive decision-making, supported by thoughtful color choices, allowing your work to feel cohesive, balanced, and alive.
Through demonstrations and hands-on practice, you’ll explore how to select a core group of colors, develop a range of values, and use color echoes to unify the entire surface. This approach encourages paintings that feel resolved- yet open, layered, connected, and intentional.
