Description: Lia has worked primarily in oils for more than 20 years. Her representational style explores and accentuates "real life" without compromising the imagination. Currently Lia is working on gallery shows and commissioned paintings.
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Color, shapes and composition are a constant inspiration as far as I can remember I have always drawn or painted. Some of my earliest works as a child are hidden inside on the pages of my parents old collectible books and much to my parents dismay, the elevator doors in the Manhattan building where I grew up. I was always drawn to representational work that connected my design and illustration roots and led me to explore a way of painting that is carefully composed, balanced, crisp, graphic, mostly repres