Lisa Jennings is an artist whose paintings and drawings have always been inspired  by her love of nature and she  attempts to bring certain elements of the textures and and other surfaces of her paintings to life with this theme in mind.  Over the past several decades, she has incorporated oil paint , and other media (metal leaf, resin, etc. ) into her encaustic works. Encaustics is a hot wax  painting technique which  incorporates color and can applied to hard  surfaces. For her subject matter, Lisa relies on her love of nature and all of its beauty and nuances  and applies the tactile elements  of the encaustic wax technique to create areas in her paintings that are  impasto and raised  surfaces.

     Lisa was born in Austin, Texas but grew up in  the small town of Joliet Illinois, a suburb of Chicago Illinois. As a young girl she would often play alone outside and in neighboring cornfields near her home and often thinks of the various insects, plant-life, etc. that often flavor the ideas in her paintings. Lisa went on to achieve her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she was as an Art student she had an opportunity to work with glass. Her experience with glass  influences her paintings in her adding glass-like and  transparent surfaces to her encaustic media using layering and resin.