Biography

Lisa Faulkenberry is a Western artist with a primary focus on horses. Deeply inspired by the awe-inspiring beauty of nature and the enduring spirit of animals, her work captures both the strength and the soul of the Western lifestyle. Her creative journey is rooted in a passion for exploration, learning, and storytelling through expressive art.

Originally from New York, Lisa grew up surrounded by the peaceful landscapes of the East Coast countryside, where her love for animals—especially horses—and the natural world began. For the past 37 years, she has made her home in Bakersfield, California. She and her husband have spent the last two decades living on a small horse ranch nestled in the foothills, surrounded by beckoning mountains, golden grasslands, and breathtaking sunrises and sunsets. These surroundings now serve as daily inspiration for her work.

Lisa blends realism and abstraction with expressive energy, using bold brushwork, layered texture, and an intuitive sense of composition. Her subjects—horses, cattle, landscapes, barns, cowboys, and cowgirls—are painted with vitality and reverence, reflecting her deep emotional connection to the Western way of life. She works primarily in acrylic and mixed media while continuing to explore the immediacy and richness of alla prima oil painting.

Her current series, Women With Horses, honors the powerful bond between women and horses—a relationship grounded in trust, intuition, and shared strength.

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