Lisa O'Connor
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Lisa Maria O'Connor
Date of Birth: 27 May 1965 (Kingston, Jamaica)
FINE ART TRAINING
1988 Massachusetts College of Art
(Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Graduate)
1986 Art Institute of Boston (Diploma in Fine Arts)
AWARDS
1994 Trinidad Art Society, Golden Jubilee Award
1988 Marguerite Guilfoyle Fund Award for Excellence
1987 Massachusetts Art Auction Scholarship
1986 Trinidad Art Society - Certificate of Merit of Excellence
Lisa O'Connor was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1965 and moved with her family to Trinidad in 1977 where she now resides.
She attended the Art Institute of Boston and the Massachusetts College of Art from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Honours) in 1988.
Her medium has been oils on canvas and she paints employing an impasto technique in the impressionist tradition. She has exhibited widely in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, the United Kingdom and in the United States.
Lisa O'Connor's style of painting is well known in Trinidad and Tobago. Her use of thick brushstrokes and lavish application of paint to capture scenes of blooming flora, historic architecture and bright beach scenes has been well received by the art-supporting public at large. In particular, her spontaneity in capturing the light and excitement of each moment whether in a fading sunset or a brilliant noon day Savannah image has evoked an appreciation among us for the mundane that sometimes eludes one in the fast-paced tempo of modern living.
Lisa casts an optimistic view on all of her subjects and contributes in her own way to recording Trinidad and Tobago's beauty and heritage on canvas. Her spontaneity, reflected so exuberantly in her work, is itself an appreciation of the beauty of the natural landscape as well as an admiration for architectural forms of past days that seem to be all too uncommon now. It is her hope that through her efforts on canvas we may all enjoy a renewed and keener appreciation of our natural and built surroundings.
5th September 2006
Contact: gregoyoung@yahoo.com
