Lisa painting at the Art in Bloom Festival in Black Mountain NC.
Lisa Blackshear is an oil painter based in Daytona Beach, Florida, whose work captures the luminous quality of light across coastal marshes, ocean vistas, and the distinctive mood of Florida’s Atlantic shore. A dedicated plein air painter, she works primarily on location, responding directly to the landscape as it unfolds in front of her.
BIO
Blackshear holds a degree in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota (1981) and brings a rich visual background to her painting practice. Before turning to fine art, she worked for years as an illustrator for major magazines and newspapers in New York — with work appearing in Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, and the Village Voice — working in pen and ink, watercolor, and digital media — developing a trained eye for composition, line, and color. Earlier in her career she helped establish the Northland Poster Collective in Minneapolis, creating visual work in service of community organizations.
She began painting in oils in 2013 after joining Asheville, North Carolina’s celebrated Woolworth Walk Gallery, where she maintained a studio booth and sold work to collectors throughout the region. During her twelve years in Asheville she became a committed figure in the local arts community, founding a plein air painting group that remained active for over a decade.
Since relocating to Daytona Beach in 2025, Lisa is active with the Art League of Daytona Beach, has shown in group exhibitions at Starry Night Gallery, and has established a new plein air group, bringing painters together to work on location throughout the area. Her style is rooted in the impressionist tradition — colorful, expressive, and attuned to atmosphere — while evolving toward a deeper tonalism and greater realism as she immerses herself in Florida’s particular quality of light.
