Lisa Payne Studios

This year has held so much personal growth for my art career ♥️ I am so thankful for the opportunities I have had this year and the people I have met along the way!!

“The Weight of All I Am” has officially been dropped off at her next show! ♥️

Some paintings just require a co-painter. “Sunset on Freedom’s Farm” 2025. Acrylic paint.

Sneak peak at the Daum Museum Of Contemporary Arts exhibit! “Nevertheless She, Persisted” opens May 31, 2025. My pieces The Weight of All That I Am, Level, and Peaked were selected for this exhibition.

Sneak peek! We started installing "Nevertheless, She Persisted" today! This guest exhibition of all-female artists will be open by May 31.

For more information about our upcoming exhibitions, visit us here: https://www.daummuseum.org/exhibitions/?mode=future.

"The Weight of All I Am"
48”x36”
In this acrylic painting I examine the intense stereotypes of womanhood. A testament to the power of woman to bend, break, and rebuild ourselves for love, responsibility, and survival. Each of the hands symbolizes a role in her life. The woman has to be put together, a wife, a mother, have a career, make time for her hobbies and so on. The cracks do not indicate brokenness. Instead they symbolize markings of the exchange of giving so much of yourself. A statement on identity and resilience. The burden of balancing everything, and at the same time the beauty of trying to keep everything together. You can feel the strain in every fracture, but she refuses to fall apart. A portrait layered with vulnerability and power.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
-Thomas Merton

Peony
watercolor and ink
18” x 24”
9/23/2021