PEOPLE OF INTEREST
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LISA LUGO
Age: 61
Lives in: Vero Beach
Occupation: Artist
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Family: Husband — Angel,
yes he is one. No children, and
no pets at this point in time.
Carmen Lugo - mother in law.
We all moved down together
but she has her own home here in Vero.
Education: Brookdale Community College Fine Arts and
continuing education classes/workshops
Hobbies: Bike riding, reading, kayaking, hiking, gardening
Who/what inspires me: “It may be a typical response for an
artist, but nature always inspires me.people category: Dalai Lama and Gandhi.”
Something most people don’t know good spiritual life is very important People
How can it not? In the
about me: “To me, a
… they probably don’t
know that I meditate daily. It isn’t something I talk about
much. Only because a spiritual practice is very personal.”
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Inner Beauty is one of the artist’s
mixed-media pieces. Resin is used
in some of her work.
Creating her freeform spirit rocks
allows Lugo to feel the sense of
spontaneity she loves.
makes my heart sing.”
From all the pieces in any medium created in her studio,
her favorite is a spirit rock.
“I personally love the organic, spontaneous free form of
making the spirit rocks.” The one she picked as her all-time
favorite seems to be destined to stay with her. “Though I
have put it up for sale over the years in various shows, it’s
never sold but it seems to get a good reaction wherever it
is showing. People seem to gravitate toward it and need to
touch it.” Seeing people’s reaction and their connection to her
work is one of the reasons she loves clay so much, she said.
Many things can inspire a piece and that inspiration often
dictates the medium Lugo chooses. She might make it a photograph,
following in her photographer father’s footsteps, or
turn to canvas and paint. Sometimes, it crosses over from one
medium to another. “I have made koi fish out of clay, and I
also love to paint them.” She’s done a series that combines
both clay and paintings of koi.
Lugo’s creativity once got her into trouble, but it also
worked to get her out of that trouble and into the role of >>
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