Richard Lisle
Richard Lisle's style of painting "Open Air Painting", which is painting landscapes
in the great outdoors on location has been inspired mostly by three things. One
is the great love he has to be outdoors, which goes back to his first college
days at Paul Smiths. Paul Smiths is a forestry school in northern New York. Richard
feels being outdoors on location is the only way he can catch the true colors
and feeling that a Landscape has over a period of time. The second is his private
study of early American artists such as the following: J. Alden Weir, William
Merritt Chase, Frank W. Benson, John Singer Sargent, and Winslow Homer. The third
is the late famous local Woodstock artist John F. Carlson who's book on Landscape
painting was a strong influence.
Richard Lisle attended Woodstock School of Art with workshop studies under Mary
Ann Goetz and studied Open Air Landscape Painting under Don Stone for over 10
years. Richard was the Chairman for the Saugerties Art Council as well as a member
of The New York Plein Air Painters, and Barrett Art Center. He has won several
awards for his paintings, and his work are on display at local galleries &
art shows.
