Lisa McShane Art

I Dream of Erratics. Oil on Canvas. 14 x 28. This painting is of a field of erratics on the Waterville Plateau. The erratics are large rocks left when the continental ice sheet stopped here after moving south from Canada. In the growing season there is hay in this field but in the winter, with the ice, fog and snow, the large rocks stand out. My husband is a geologist and we love to drive through these desolate, beautiful landscapes.

Erratic and the Road. Oil on Canvas. 18 x 24 I've been working on the Plateau in Winter series. This is an area - the Waterville Plateau in northcentral Washington state - where the continental ice sheet came to rest after scraping across North America. It left behind fields of erratics and some notably large ones. I'm fascinated by this image and you'll likely see this again. Note the scale of the telephone poles across the road.

Columbia County Hayfield. Oil on Canvas. 11 x 14. I believe I've finished my series, Road to Asotin. Not sure. But I think so. Columbia County Hayfield is in that series, middle of the series. The last one in the series was Big Hills, Palouse . You can see the entire series on my Art Website . Or, the entire series that made it out of my studio. There were several more that found themselves in the 'not good enough' stack in the hallway. I don't abandon paintings quickly. I've found that some simply take a lot more time and layers of paint than others. But the bad stack, well, they're just bad. I'm working on 7 paintings right now: 3 are in the series, Plateau in Winter , 3 are small paintings from my garden, 1 is a large painting of the Similkameen Valley. By Saturday afternoon all were wet and I had to stop painting.

Winter Field. Oil on Canvas. 12 x 18. This is from my series Plateau in Winter. This is the Waterville Plateau, a high elevation plain in north central Washington that puts you eye to eye with the peaks of the North Cascades. This high elevation means that it's often frozen or foggy in winter. We went back this Spring as I'm working on painting this area in several seasons. Driving up to the plateau from the Columbia River canyon we were listening to David Sedaris read his book, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim . So now I picture the flat road leading up to the plateau and at the same time, I hear David talking about his dad and their rental apartments. It's really hilarious.