Biography

Laurie Lisonbee is a contemporary realist painter who was born in Riverside, California in 1955. Her artistic sensibility was early formed amidst California's beaches and lush orange groves, along with family drawing sessions at the kitchen table. In her teens she lived in Utah where her visual perceptions were sharpened by the daily vista of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. After spending most of her adult life making art and teaching in California, she now makes her home among the spectacular mountains of Salem, Utah. Her paintings have been shown in galleries in many states as well as in the Elmhurst Art Museum, Springville Museum of Art, BYU Museum of Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, and LDS Church Museum of History and Art. Laurie Lisonbee has been the recipient of numerous awards including museum purchase awards and “best of show” awards in regional and national exhibitions.

An artist and art educator with an active career spanning two decades, Laurie teaches drawing and design at Brigham Young University. She is the mother of three children, and is married to Dennis Lisonbee, a filmmaker and Professor of Digital Media at Utah Valley University. In addition to teaching, exhibiting and painting in her studio, Laurie navigates around the antics of her 12-year-old son James and her dog Spike.