Award winning Franklin artist Lisa Grunewald Bailey, originally from Grosse Pointe Michigan, holds a B.A. in Art and Interior Design. Lisa works and teaches in many drawing and painting mediums. She feels it is important to keep current with the mediums in which she teaches. The different mediums stimulate her imagination and allow for more creativity and growth. Lisa decides which medium to use depending on her vision for each painting. Lisa travels extensively in order to collect images and ideas to help create most of her paintings which have nature as the theme. In any medium, her paintings accent color with a vibrantly complex color pallet. They are also noted for their sense of movement, and her attention to detail. Lisa explores many different techniques while adding her own interpretation.

Through this process Lisa invented a new style in watercolor that she calls "Color Weave". After sketching the image, Lisa weaves the lines throughout the painting with overlapping transparent color to create the shapes. Lisa believes an expressive painting is more than creating a literal summary of the subject but the result of choices made by the artist; what to eliminate, change or simplify.

In 2000, Lisa started her own business, "Developing Artists", to teach drawing and painting to children and adults. She also taught art through the King Philip High School adult education program in Wrentham, MA from 2001-2007. In 2007, Lisa did a series of art workshops at the Franklin Public Library. She has also been an Artist-In-Resident at South Elementary School in Bellingham, MA, a substitute art teacher at Cornerstone Christian Academy in Franklin, MA, a judge for the "Discover Sri Lanka" children's contest, a judge for the Franklin Art Association (FAA) as well as the FAA President from '03 - '06, and currently a Rhode Island Watercolor Society board member. Lisa is a member of several local art associations and is very active in exhibiting. Her work has been purchased by individuals and businesses throughout the United States.

Contact Lisa G. Bailey at 508.553.9119 or lgb@lisagbailey.com. For more information go to www.lisagbailey.com