Lisa Faulkenberry is a contemporary artist based in Bakersfield, California, whose work explores connection, presence, and the quiet dialogue between beings and the natural world.
Rooted in her lifelong connection to horses, Western culture, and ranch life, Lisa’s work began as a personal exploration of the emotional bond between horse and human. Today, that exploration extends beyond the equine subject into expressive landscapes, animals, human figures, and atmospheric imagery.
Working primarily in oil and acrylic, Lisa combines contemporary painterly realism with atmospheric approaches, moving between representation and abstraction. Light, water, movement, reflection, and atmosphere become visual languages through which she explores emotion, experience, and perception.
The horse remains a central thread throughout her work, while her expanding body of work embraces the broader natural world. Whether portraying a horse, figure, animal, or landscape, each painting begins with a story, experience, or moment of connection, evolving through observation, feeling, and intuition.
Lisa invites viewers to pause, feel, and look beyond the visible—to discover the energy, emotion, and unspoken relationships between beings and the world around them, and perhaps find a moment of peace and connection of their own.
