🖌️🐚 Lisa Orlans is an artist based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

 🖌️🐚 Lisa Orlans is an artist based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

A passionate antique dealer and nature lover, Lisa has a huge collection of everything from sea glass and shells to paperweights and miniature Italian glass vases. Lisa admits that her home is pretty cluttered with her collections.
When the pandemic started, Lisa says she often took walks in the woods instead of going to the gym.
While there, she became interested in collecting empty apple snail shells along the banks of rivers and lakes.
The art process begins with boiling and washing the shells with soap. The painting process takes about 6 hours. Lisa then coats them with resin to add shine and durability.
"Nature has always inspired me. The graceful lines and colors you see in a sunset, a shell, a butterfly wing, or a fern leaf are what strike me most.
In the relative isolation of this year, I have come to understand how much being in nature has been grounding and calming to me."
"I would love it if someday people could look at my painted shells and find something timeless about them."
🗣️. Lisa Orlans

Sources: beachcombingmagazine.com; Pinterest.