As a child, Lisa Schupbach demonstrated a gift for visual art, placed into a special program for young artists at an early age. Despite a predilection for drawing as a means of expression, Lisa chose to follow dance as a teenager. A dancer for twelve years, she was forced to abandon it after knee injuries. In college, she turned to the theater, where she had some success as an actress in local productions.

After a long hiatus, her attraction to the visual arts was rekindled when she went to Arizona State University, a period during which she worked as a model for Scottsdale Artists' School. When asked, Lisa can pinpoint a precise moment when she knew she wanted painting to be her life's work. "It was an epiphany," says Lisa. "I was studying foreign language in Spain, and just three months prior to that I had picked up a paintbrush for the first time to try to 'teach' myself how to paint. Bored with the language classes, I turned to painting as an outlet in an unfamiliar setting. I can still remember the day, doing a riverside painting in Salamanca, and something 'clicked' inside me. I had never been more exhilarated. At that moment, I knew this was the thing I had been looking for. From that point on, I've had a compulsion to paint."

As an artist, Lisa has evolved at a remarkable pace, establishing a style and sophistication that belie her experience. Lisa's paintings have been acclaimed in a number of regional and national shows, including the "Best and Brightest" at Scottsdale Artists' School, and the inauguration of the Farmington Art Museum (at which she won a juror's award). She has done numerous commissions for private collectors. At the Arizona State University BFA graduation ceremony, Lisa was awarded the "Outstanding Painting Student" award. She was picked to be featured in the article "21 Under 31" (Southwest Art, September 2000) and wrote a feature article titled "Secret Self Portraits"(The Artists Magazine, March 2003).

Lisa's paintings emphasize design, emotion and mood. Her paintings have a feeling of narrative, of events that have or are about to transpire. The compositions are dynamic, imposing a sense of immediacy in the viewer. Her pieces are pensive, and through varied brushwork and subtle nuance of color, the image is imbued with her own sentiment and fleeting connection with the subject.

She shows her work at El Presidio Galleries (Tucson, AZ) and The Gallery at Rich Designs (Colorado Springs, CO).