BIO OF ARTIST
L J MCLOUGHLIN BIO:
Due to the help of an intuitive school art teacher, when Lisa was 13, she discovered she could draw...
After this unearthing, the driving force behind her artistic bent was her mother.....She joined Lisa's classes when shyness held her back, she prodded when Lisa hit a dry spell, and she pushed when Lisa sat back....there was absolutely no escaping her mother's encouragement.
Her vision is to present to viewers, paintings of Arizona and other places in the American 'west', by creating works using the backdrops of the west's beautiful and gritty scenery . She will visit places of historical significance, and composes her paintings; every rock and every nuance is actually there, if the viewer ever decides to visit the site. If not, they have a canvas of accurate western life placed on their walls, and a memory of those real, current or nostalgic western events captured in a moment in time. She also paints portraits of native Navajo and Apache peoples and other western characters, whose faces and lives, inspire and move us.
She won her first art contest when she was 15, sold her first painting at age 16, and won an art scholarship when she was 18. During her 20's she did sidewalk shows, hung in local galleries, banks, art fests and county shows. She joined 2 local art associations where she grew up and became active with them. She did numerous portrait commissions of clients relatives, children, dogs and horses, and entered outside art shows whenever she could.
In her 30's she hung in the Overland Trails Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, continuing to learn at the feet of Western and Portrait artists whenever she could. In 1987 she made her S.W.A. signature award, (Society of Western Artists), received recognition in newspaper articles for shows she entered, hung in museum shows, collected a handful of 'Best of Shows', various ribbon placings, the Grumbacher Art Award and a few People's Choice awards. She also attended several nationally juried classes for the Cowboy Artists of America, which, the most notable for her, was to study with Howard Terpning CAA, at the Cowboy Museum in Kerrville Texas in the late 1990's. She still gleans whatever she can from current-all-time-great-artists, whose critiques help to hone her skills and keep her eye keen.
She grew up raising and training horses, and In 1993 married a renown horseman from Arizona, took her horses and moved to a ranch there, with endless western landscape views in every direction and that glorious sunlight that pervades the scenery. Most of her current work reflects the Arizona western life, that she knows and has grown to love.
The last few years she has been entering select juried national western art shows....
She joined the American Women Artists Society, (her status upgraded to 'Associate with distinction' in 2019), and was juried to be part of the W.A.O.W. association (Women Artists of the West) in September 2019.
Hanging the last couple of years in shows at the Phippen Western Art Museum in Prescott, Arizona, the Slopoke Western Art shows in Solvang, California, the M.O. Club shows in Tucson Arizona, and at the Steamboat Art Museum (AWA show) last year. She showed at the American Academy of Equine Art in Aiken South Carolina in March 2020, and at the W.A.O.W. Juried show at Settler's West Galleries in Tucson, Arizona, (the 50th anniversary of the WAOA artists), in March 2020, and sold her painting 2 months prior to the shows opening date.
She also hung her work at the invitational show for the WAOW in Dubois (Jackson Hole) Wyoming, in June-July 2020, (which later became an online show).
She was accepted to show 2 paintings in November 2020, at the Cowboy Museum and Heritage Center in Oklahoma City, called Small Works- Great Wonders. She also hung a variety of work at the SLOPOKE western art show in Solvang, California, www.the-slopoke.com. on Sept. 25-27, 2020, and was delighted to again be awarded Best of Show.
More recently, she hung in a WAOW juried show in Kerrville Texas in March 2021, at the Museum of Western Art, with 'Hell-Bent for Leather', a historical Pony Express piece of work. She was also selected to show at the 'Cowgirl Up' Show in Wickenburg Arizona, at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, from March 28th through September 5, 2021, with a handful of large and small paintings, won the museum Executive Director's 2021 new artist award in March of 2021, and was selected to show with the museum the following year, in 2022.
She was also selected to show in Great Falls Montana, at the 'Best of the West' Art show, August 19-22, 2021 with approximately 12 paintings, and sold her 1 hour Quick Draw painting at their auction, which went for the 2nd highest price. Additionally, by invitation, she sold a piece at the Big Sky Art Auction, in July of 2022, in Big Sky Montana.
She was recently honored to have a Solo Show in Wickenburg, Arizona with 20 works, which took place on October 27th, 2023.
Lastly, in 2024, she is honored to also have been selected as one of the 37 W.A.O.W. women artists to show at the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve in Oklahoma, and will be hanging a body of work for their western art show in May through August of 2024.
She will also be hanging two new miniature works at Settler's West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, on Feb. 10, 2024, on display for one month, and an additional two new works will be hanging at the Phippen Western Art Museum WAOW on March 9th through June 30th 2024.
At the Phippen Museum show, she was honored to receive the Coleman Award of Excellence for the best depiction of 'Ranch Life' with her painting, The Catch.
Along with her husband, she runs and operates a equine riding school in south-eastern Arizona, where she paints from her studio at their ranch, and enjoy teaching art when time permits. She continue to strive to give the world a glimpse of this beauty that we call the 'west'.
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Due to the help of an intuitive school art teacher, when Lisa was 13, she discovered she could draw...
After this unearthing, the driving force behind her artistic bent was her mother.....She joined Lisa's classes when shyness held her back, she prodded when Lisa hit a dry spell, and she pushed when Lisa sat back....there was absolutely no escaping her mother's encouragement.
Her vision is to present to viewers, paintings of Arizona and other places in the American 'west', by creating works using the backdrops of the west's beautiful and gritty scenery . She will visit places of historical significance, and composes her paintings; every rock and every nuance is actually there, if the viewer ever decides to visit the site. If not, they have a canvas of accurate western life placed on their walls, and a memory of those real, current or nostalgic western events captured in a moment in time. She also paints portraits of native Navajo and Apache peoples and other western characters, whose faces and lives, inspire and move us.
She won her first art contest when she was 15, sold her first painting at age 16, and won an art scholarship when she was 18. During her 20's she did sidewalk shows, hung in local galleries, banks, art fests and county shows. She joined 2 local art associations where she grew up and became active with them. She did numerous portrait commissions of clients relatives, children, dogs and horses, and entered outside art shows whenever she could.
In her 30's she hung in the Overland Trails Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, continuing to learn at the feet of Western and Portrait artists whenever she could. In 1987 she made her S.W.A. signature award, (Society of Western Artists), received recognition in newspaper articles for shows she entered, hung in museum shows, collected a handful of 'Best of Shows', various ribbon placings, the Grumbacher Art Award and a few People's Choice awards. She also attended several nationally juried classes for the Cowboy Artists of America, which, the most notable for her, was to study with Howard Terpning CAA, at the Cowboy Museum in Kerrville Texas in the late 1990's. She still gleans whatever she can from current-all-time-great-artists, whose critiques help to hone her skills and keep her eye keen.
She grew up raising and training horses, and In 1993 married a renown horseman from Arizona, took her horses and moved to a ranch there, with endless western landscape views in every direction and that glorious sunlight that pervades the scenery. Most of her current work reflects the Arizona western life, that she knows and has grown to love.
The last few years she has been entering select juried national western art shows....
She joined the American Women Artists Society, (her status upgraded to 'Associate with distinction' in 2019), and was juried to be part of the W.A.O.W. association (Women Artists of the West) in September 2019.
Hanging the last couple of years in shows at the Phippen Western Art Museum in Prescott, Arizona, the Slopoke Western Art shows in Solvang, California, the M.O. Club shows in Tucson Arizona, and at the Steamboat Art Museum (AWA show) last year. She showed at the American Academy of Equine Art in Aiken South Carolina in March 2020, and at the W.A.O.W. Juried show at Settler's West Galleries in Tucson, Arizona, (the 50th anniversary of the WAOA artists), in March 2020, and sold her painting 2 months prior to the shows opening date.
She also hung her work at the invitational show for the WAOW in Dubois (Jackson Hole) Wyoming, in June-July 2020, (which later became an online show).
She was accepted to show 2 paintings in November 2020, at the Cowboy Museum and Heritage Center in Oklahoma City, called Small Works- Great Wonders. She also hung a variety of work at the SLOPOKE western art show in Solvang, California, www.the-slopoke.com. on Sept. 25-27, 2020, and was delighted to again be awarded Best of Show.
More recently, she hung in a WAOW juried show in Kerrville Texas in March 2021, at the Museum of Western Art, with 'Hell-Bent for Leather', a historical Pony Express piece of work. She was also selected to show at the 'Cowgirl Up' Show in Wickenburg Arizona, at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, from March 28th through September 5, 2021, with a handful of large and small paintings, won the museum Executive Director's 2021 new artist award in March of 2021, and was selected to show with the museum the following year, in 2022.
She was also selected to show in Great Falls Montana, at the 'Best of the West' Art show, August 19-22, 2021 with approximately 12 paintings, and sold her 1 hour Quick Draw painting at their auction, which went for the 2nd highest price. Additionally, by invitation, she sold a piece at the Big Sky Art Auction, in July of 2022, in Big Sky Montana.
She was recently honored to have a Solo Show in Wickenburg, Arizona with 20 works, which took place on October 27th, 2023.
Lastly, in 2024, she is honored to also have been selected as one of the 37 W.A.O.W. women artists to show at the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve in Oklahoma, and will be hanging a body of work for their western art show in May through August of 2024.
She will also be hanging two new miniature works at Settler's West Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, on Feb. 10, 2024, on display for one month, and an additional two new works will be hanging at the Phippen Western Art Museum WAOW on March 9th through June 30th 2024.
At the Phippen Museum show, she was honored to receive the Coleman Award of Excellence for the best depiction of 'Ranch Life' with her painting, The Catch.
Along with her husband, she runs and operates a equine riding school in south-eastern Arizona, where she paints from her studio at their ranch, and enjoy teaching art when time permits. She continue to strive to give the world a glimpse of this beauty that we call the 'west'.