Lisa Gilley is a native Washingtonian. She spends her time between her Marrowstone Island farm on the Olympic Peninsula and her place in Ridgway, Colorado. In the last decade, Gilley began focusing her work on National Parks and Monuments, wilderness areas, and lands seeking protection under different Wilderness Acts to bring awareness to their fragile existence and works on an ongoing basis with many wilderness, river and salmon protective outlets. In 2015, Gilley was honored by Artist Trust of Washington with a Grant for Artist (GAP) award for her paintings documenting the Snake River and its surrounding tributaries. The National Parks Service has honored Gilley with art residencies at Grand Canyon National Park (2016), Zion National Park (2017), and Capitol Reef National Park (2019).
Gilley’s paintings are in many prestigious private collections around the United States, Canada, and Europe and many public collections, including the Paul G. Allen Collection, Microsoft Art Collection, Four Seasons Hotel (Seattle), Zion and Capitol Reef National Parks, Swedish Medical Center, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Hospitals, PeaceHealth Medical Centers, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Care Center, the University of Washington, People’s Bank of Washington, and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art.
Oil on panel, 40 x 60 in, $14,000.00
Located in Jasper National Park, Alberta. Makhabn (also spelled Manachban) is the Siksika (Blackfoot) name for the Bow River, meaning “river where bow reeds grow.” The name refers to reeds along the riverbanks traditionally used by First Nations to make bows—an essential resource for survival.
Oil on panel, 48 x 48 in, $12,500.00
Created from reference photographs taken at Ghost Ranch, where Georgia O’Keeffe made her first home. Access to this area is restricted; I visited on horseback during a guided sunset tour and captured hundreds of images along the way, including the one that inspired this painting. This work is also featured as the cover of the Dutch edition of Crux by NYT's bestselling author Gabriel Tallent.
Oil on panel, 48 x 36 in, $11,000.00
The Mancos Shale is a Cretaceous-age marine sedimentary formation found throughout the western United States, spanning approximately 95–80 million years. This scene is located just east of the main entrance into Capitol Reef National Park, where I was an artist-in-residence and National Park ranger in 2019.
Oil on panel, 24 x 36 in, $6,500.00
This river valley is located in the Wind River Range, Wyoming. This protected basin is known as “Warm Valley” for its relatively mild microclimate, serving as a wintering ground for wildlife and historically for the Eastern Shoshone, who recognized its shelter from harsh alpine conditions.
Oil on panel, 48 x 36 in, $11,000.00
This is a view of a well-known bend in the Snake River within Grand Teton National Park. The title refers to storm clouds obscuring the Teton Range in the background. The Tetons typically dominate the landscape, but here I wanted to shift the focus to the river itself—an essential, moving presence that shapes the valley. The Snake River begins in northwestern Wyoming.
Oil on panel, 36 x 36 in, $9,000.00
An autumn scene along Denali Park Road in Denali National Park and Preserve. A major landslide closed this 92-mile road at Mile 43 several years ago, and it remains closed today. This view lies beyond the closure point and is now accessible only by park bus. A few years before the closure, I was fortunate to win the road lottery—one of just a hundred selected from thousands of applicants each year—which allowed me to travel the road on the final day of the season.
Oil on panel, 48 x 48 in, $12,500.00
This depicts the North Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho. Salmon River is also very famous with rafters and anglers/flyfisherman.
