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Lisa Skelding

Artist member since 2025
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Port Carling, Ontario

Lisa Skelding is a Muskoka-based mixed media artist whose work bridges a 30-year career in couple and trauma therapy with a deep commitment to environmental care. A recent BFA graduate from OCAD University, she works in contemporary abstract impressionism, more recently using sustainable materials such as beeswax medium, oil pigments, and natural elements.

Work

All Works
'Monster Wave'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 36" x 48" x 1"
  • $3050 buy — $153 try
#ocean #landscape #natural world
Calm Place Series ' Big Loop'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 40" x 60" x 1.5"
  • $4366 buy — $218 try
#landscape #natural world
'Surviving the Smoke'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 48" x 36" x 1.5"
  • $2299 buy — $115 try
#impressionism #wildlife #natural world
'Mama Bear'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 24" x 36" x 1.5"
  • $1506 buy — $75 try
#landscape #impressionism #wildlife #animal
'Disintegration'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 36" x 36" x 1.5"
  • $1909 buy — $95 try
#natural world #ocean
'November Blues'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 60" x 40" x 2"
  • $3295 buy — $165 try
#natural world #landscape
'Resilience Amidst Environmental Adversity'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 24" x 36" x 1.5"
  • $1500 buy — $75 try
#natural world #animals
'Loon Calls'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 60" x 40" x 1.5"
  • $3294 buy — $165 try
#lakescape #abstract landscape
'Strata of Grief'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 36" x 48" x 1"
  • $3050 buy — $153 try
#ocean #landscape #natural world
'Change is in the Air'
  • Lisa Skelding
  • 36" x 48" x 1.5"
  • $2157 buy — $108 try
#impressionsm #wildlife #animal

Inside the Studio

Q+A

Describe your home in 3 words

peaceful, breathtaking, warm

When I'm not making art, I'm (a) ...

golfing, playing tennis, alpine skiing or hiking with our golden retriever

Beverage of choice

wine, pinot noir

Describe the person your work appeals to in 3 words

lover of contemporary impressionistic landscapes, wildlife, and the natural world

Favourite medium

Encaustic (beeswax mixed media)

What kind of artwork do you have in your home?

Paintings of the natural world outside my home brought inside the home

MOST VIEWED
'Monster Wave'
Lisa Skelding
Upcoming Exhibitions
2025-08-01

Windermere, Ontario
'Gallery in the Woods' Muskoka Chautauqua

Select Past Exhibitions
2025

OCADU Toronto, Ont
GradEx110

Accolades
2025

Lisa Skelding
BMO Sustainability Award

Press
2025

Citytv
Breakfast Television (BT) GradEx110

Education
2025

OCADU
BFA Drawing and Painting

1994

University of Toronto
MSW Master of Social Work

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