About LMN
The beautiful landscape and vibrant community of Provincetown, MA has been nurturing and inspiring artist Lisa-Marie Nowakowski for 25 years. A primarily self-taught creative zealot with a passion for learning and trying new things, she has embraced a variety of media throughout these decades.
Photography
Amid capturing countless photographs of Cape Cod in all seasons, she discovered a particular affinity for environmental self-portraiture. She utilized this medium as a vehicle to further cultivate-- and ultimately transmit-- desirable human qualities by embodying them, while visually stitching her temporal form into the glorious landscapes she adores. Having advanced and affirmed her earthly existence in this way, she is currently most interested in continuing to experiment with long exposure photography, which often results in dreamy visuals that seem to reach beyond this world.
Painting
Having only made a handful of paintings before arriving in Provincetown, the artistic history and current creative climate gradually began to permeate her consciousness-- an immersive magic further fertilized by part-time work in a gallery and a white-line woodcut print class at Provincetown Art Association and Museum. After a great deal of painting experimentation, she identified her favorite medium as white-line woodcut prints-- or 'Provincetown prints', as the technique originated here in the early 1900's. However, an arthritic neck stemming from a childhood accident made the carving part of the process a painful ordeal, so she devised a painting style that simulated the look of these works utilizing masking fluid or thin tape to create the linework she so admired.
Sculpture/3-Dimensional
Plaster
Profound internal changes following the end of a relationship prompted her to reach back to a face-casting mask-making technique first learned in a high school art class. That same teacher also taught a sculpture-making process in which aluminum mesh is shaped and covered with plaster gauze and then augmented with wet plaster. Three decades later, craving a more tactile, 3-dimensional creative engagement, she began a series of these works, which evolved to occasionally utiilize wire in place of the metal mesh.
Wine Corks
A fascination with the texture of cork, an appreciation for wine, and an enthusiasm for cool, free, natural materials combined to fill her cup of inspiration, resulting in a variety of projects (only a few of which are depicted on this site).
Photography
Amid capturing countless photographs of Cape Cod in all seasons, she discovered a particular affinity for environmental self-portraiture. She utilized this medium as a vehicle to further cultivate-- and ultimately transmit-- desirable human qualities by embodying them, while visually stitching her temporal form into the glorious landscapes she adores. Having advanced and affirmed her earthly existence in this way, she is currently most interested in continuing to experiment with long exposure photography, which often results in dreamy visuals that seem to reach beyond this world.
Painting
Having only made a handful of paintings before arriving in Provincetown, the artistic history and current creative climate gradually began to permeate her consciousness-- an immersive magic further fertilized by part-time work in a gallery and a white-line woodcut print class at Provincetown Art Association and Museum. After a great deal of painting experimentation, she identified her favorite medium as white-line woodcut prints-- or 'Provincetown prints', as the technique originated here in the early 1900's. However, an arthritic neck stemming from a childhood accident made the carving part of the process a painful ordeal, so she devised a painting style that simulated the look of these works utilizing masking fluid or thin tape to create the linework she so admired.
Sculpture/3-Dimensional
Plaster
Profound internal changes following the end of a relationship prompted her to reach back to a face-casting mask-making technique first learned in a high school art class. That same teacher also taught a sculpture-making process in which aluminum mesh is shaped and covered with plaster gauze and then augmented with wet plaster. Three decades later, craving a more tactile, 3-dimensional creative engagement, she began a series of these works, which evolved to occasionally utiilize wire in place of the metal mesh.
Wine Corks
A fascination with the texture of cork, an appreciation for wine, and an enthusiasm for cool, free, natural materials combined to fill her cup of inspiration, resulting in a variety of projects (only a few of which are depicted on this site).