Where Hummingbirds Swim

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.

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.