Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller is a California-based artist whose paintings are inspired by beauty, nature and moments of transcendence in the human experience. She works primarily in oil on canvas, and water-based mediums on paper, and is at home painting both on-location outdoors ‘en plein air’, and in the studio using a combination of her own photographs, feelings and intuition as source material.

Through her work, Lisa endeavors to convey a feeling of awareness to a greater force in our lives, often experienced as ‘an awakening’. This experience of the transcendent is a universal truth that we can all identify with - regardless of we are individually on our life’s journeys – and it brings us closer to ourselves and each other. The overall effect of her art work is that of free-form expression, affirmation and liberation - one that provokes connection and inspires deeply personal introspection and spiritual growth.

“My intention is to create a painting that is akin to a spiritual experience. The artist, the divine creative spirit, and the viewer all meet at the painting. My paintings evoke an experience similar to when we take a moment in the day to gaze up at the sky while it slowly transforms in front of our eyes. Over time the painting will s...

B.A. Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2025-2026 "Season of Light" Exhibition at Domecil Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
2025 "Sea & Sky: A Summer Collection of Paintings from the California Coast", Santa Barbara, CA
2024 “Flower Essence Paintings” Gallup &Stribling, Carpinteria, CA
2023 “Santa Barbara Art Walk”, Domecil, Santa Barbara, CA
2022 “Spiritual Abstractions” works on paper, Saatchi Gallery, International
2020 “You Are The Sky”, installation and exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ
2019 “Abstract Land, Sea and Sky” works on paper, Saatchi Gallery, International
2018 “The Journey Home” essay and paintings, published in “Maker’s Magazine” Volume 5: Home Edition
2017 "Postcards from the Coast", limited-edition archival prints, benefit exhibition and sale, California Fire Help
2018 “Postcards from the Coast”, mixed-media paintings, juried group exhibition, The Handmade Pop-up
2017 “Spring Superbloom” paintings, juried group exhibition, The Handmade Pop-up
2017 “Winter Beach Paintings” mixed-media on paper, Santa Barbara, CA
2016 “Clouds Above”, oil on canvas, published in “The Woman I Am” poetry by Jean Johns, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 “Clouds I & II”, ceramic mobiles, “Force of Nature” juried group exhibition, Shemer Art Center, Phoenix, AZ
2015 “Radian...