Wise Beyond Your Years
Lisa Griffen, "Wise Beyond Your Years," 8x8" mixed media painting on wood.
Awkward Phase
Lisa Griffen, "Awkward Phase," 11x14" mixed media painting on gessobord.
Staredown
Mixed media on 8x8" wood.
Old Soul
Lisa Griffen. Old Soul. Mixed media outsider art cat painting.
Hector
Lisa Griffen. Hector. Mixed media outsider art painting.
News of the World
Mixed media, outsider art, art brut painting.
Red Scarf
Mixed media, outsider art, art brut painting.
Winter Fey
Lisa Griffen, Winter Fey. Mixed media outsider art painting.
Handful of Stars
Lisa Griffen, Handful of Stars, mixed media outsider art painting.
Rumpelstiltskin
Lisa Griffen. Rumpelstiltskin. Mixed media outsider art painting.
Brainwave
Lisa Griffen. Brainwave. Mixed media outsider art painting.
Archaeology
Lisa Griffen, Archaeology. Mixed media outsider art painting.
Banjo
Lisa Griffen, Banjo. Mixed media outsider art painting.
Shake Your Tailfeathers
Lisa Griffen, Shake Your Tailfeathers. Mixed media outsider art painting.
Stuck Up for a Reason
Lisa Griffen. Stuck Up for a Reason. Mixed media outsider art painting.
My mixed-media paintings evolve through many layers of color and texture. Art is an outlet for my defiant, irreverent inner self, the essential self from before I was taught how to act, how to be. In painting, anything is possible. I explore strong emotion through primitive, abstract faces or strange creatures. I’m drawn to all kinds of visceral expression, from cave paintings to outsider art to tribal masks to graffiti. My art is born of the same primal need for expression, with themes ranging from humor to vulnerability, spirituality, and otherness. I hope that viewers will recognize something familiar, something common to all of us, and that sharing that experience means that we are somehow less alone.