Staff Spotlight: Liz Lord
How long have you worked at Pinot’s Palette? A little over a year. That year went fast!
Favorite artist: I will always love Georgia O’Keefe and her skull and flower paintings and her pastel desert scenes. I also love Tara McPherson, a pop surrealist, whose paintings are so beautiful you would think it was computer generated instead of paint.
Favorite Pinot’s Palette memory: Too many to count! But one I won’t forget ever was when I was teaching a class Riverwalk after recovering from a surgical procedure. It was almost a full class, and everything was going great. I felt I was getting my bearings after taking off work for so long, but my spatial awareness was off, and I backed up too far and fell off the stage. I caught myself with one foot, but I knocked my master painting off the easel with my clumsy arm. Joan ran over to help, trying to pick up the painting but it fumbled out of her hands, into the air, then at the feet of a woman in the front row. The comedic timing was almost like slapstick. Everyone was dying laughing but in a sympathetic way. We all had a good laugh, and everyone was so nice about it. The mood was nice and light and the rest of the class went perfect.
Other hobbies besides painting: I love plants. I have so many plants now that my husband doesn’t even acknowledge the new ones anymore.
Favorite Pinot’s cocktail: The Bob Ross. It’s very summery and I love the color. They are also fun to make.
What does being an artist mean to you? It’s always evolving for me. Sometimes it’s a direct expression of how I’m feeling or the feelings of others, sometimes it’s simply an aesthetic. Other times it can be meditation or self-regulation. A way of keeping my hands busy so my mind can rest.