Alisa Shea
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BoldBrush Recommends: Alisa Shea
Biography
Alisa Shea is a child of the 70s from Normal (yes, Normal), Illinois. Despite a clear passion and aptitude for fine art, Alisa was persuaded to forego an art education in favor of more practical pursuits. In 2013-two decades, two degrees, and several unrelated jobs later-she had a midlife crisis decided she could no longer defer her artistic goals, and left an established career in health outcomes research in order to pursue painting full time.
Alisa works exclusively in watercolor. Her work has been shown in juried exhibitions across the United States and is in numerous private collections. She is a Signature member of the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor Honor Society, and American Women Artists, and is a juried member of the International Guild of Realism. She has been featured in publications including The Artist's Magazine, Watercolor Artist, The Art of Watercolour, and Fine Art Connoisseur, as well as several editions of the Splash-Best of Watercolor book series.
Alisa lives and works in Northport, New York with her husband, two sons, and one beautiful English bulldog. She has no representation and paints at an easel in the kitchen.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a long-time frustrated artist who recently quit a decades long career in an unrelated field in order to pursue my creative passions full time. I've been an occupational therapist and a health outcomes researcher. Go ahead, search PubMed for "AM Shea"... and the next time you're having trouble sleeping? "Resource use and costs of branch and central retinal vein occlusion in the elderly." You're welcome.
Inspired by the stress of my high pressure consulting job, my nanny's arrest, my husband's diagnosis of early-onset Parkinson's disease, and my impending 40th birthday--ALL AT THE SAME TIME--I took a hint from the universe and quit my "real" job in the fall of 2013. Shortly thereafter, I took my first ever watercolor class at my local art league and I immediately fell in love.
I paint in watercolor because it scares me. I love its quirky unpredictability. I love the twinge of anxiety I feel every time I put down a color, knowing that I've often only got one shot to get it right.
I take a medium known for its softness and unpredictability and push it to its outermost limits of saturation and control. My still life paintings are a celebration of the intricacies of the familiar and the beauty generated by the patina of time. Although I gravitate toward vintage subjects, my work is informed by my current life experiences and surroundings. As a result, my work offers an interplay between the present and the past, providing a detailed study of extant objects and themes while simultaneously evoking a sense of history and nostalgia.
I start painting first thing in the morning, and the next thing I know it's mid afternoon. Hours have gone by, but to me, no time has passed. My anxieties about everyday trivialities simply fade away and I'm transported to a place where nothing else matters but light and shadow and color . . . and it is SO GOOD.
So that's where I'm at right now. Welcome to my encore.
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