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

Andalusia Porch 2004 - Oil	Devon House 2004 - Oil
Evening at Castara 2004 - Oil	Ground Orchids 2004 - Oil
Knowsley Overcast 2004 - Oil	Rick's Café 2004 - Oil