'Where Hummingbirds Swim,' by Lisa Miceli, Watercolor on Paper Painting

This framed 27" x 14" watercolor on paper by artist Lisa Miceli depicts the abstracted movement of birds, figures, and aquatic imagery that the artist uses to symbolize the way people interact with nature. Capturing the fluid, changing, and evolving relationships in nature. Painted with loose brushwork set against a cool/violet background with warm washes of watercolor beneath. Many of the images and figures are purposely left ambiguous so that the viewer can develop their own narrative based on the meanings of the symbols or images for them. This ambiguity allows for images to have more than one meaning, and to reflect the multiple facets of human nature.
This work is a part of the artist's LatticeWorks series.

Lisa Miceli is a studio and plein air painter who teaches studio and plein air painting at the Mystic Museum of Art, Lyme Art Association, Avondale Arts in Rhode Island, and on Fishers Island, New York. Lisa is-co chair of the New England Watercolor Society “Brushes with Nature” plein air painting program, and is a member of the Noank 9 plein air painting group. Lisa’s works hang in galleries throughout New England including Arnould Gallery in Marblehead, MA, the Plymouth Center for the Arts in Plymouth, MA, Mystic Museum of Art, Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT, Thames River Gallery in New London, CT, Avondale Arts in Rhode Island, and the Bryan Memorial Gallery in VT.
She is currently featured in a three-person show "Points of View" at Thames River Gallery in New London, and had a solo watercolor Show at Studio 33 Gallery in New London in 2020. Recent juried shows include the New England Watercolor Society North American Open Juried Exhibition in Plymouth, MA, the NEWs Brushes with Nature plein air show and Instructors Show, the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society Juried Members Exhibition, the CT River Museum “Hands on the Land” show, and juried shows at Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT and the Mystic Museum of Art.
Lisa’s abstract expressionist painting “How the World Opened” was awarded the Pamela J Nelson Watercolor Award by Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine curator of Contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and Lisa was winner of the 2020 JMW Turner watercolor competition at the Mystic Seaport Museum.
Lisa studied watercolor painting with British watercolorist Ron Ranson, with Bob Noreika at the Lyme Art Association, Howard Park at the Mystic Museum of Art, and with instructors at Granite Street Gallery in New London. A significant influence on her painting was her grandmother, Lucille Gauthier who was an illustrator, watercolorist, and a WPA artist. Lisa has a doctorate in clinical psychology and her previous work as a clinical psychologist and trauma therapist has influenced her appreciation of the human condition which is integral to her art.