Lisa Elley is a New Zealand-born contemporary artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area whose striking oil paintings blend natural vibrancy with the bold, sculptural precision of palette knife work. Having lived in major cultural hubs across the globe, including London and New York, Elley channels her love for travel and the outdoors into highly expressive landscapes and botanical scenes. Operating with a fast, intuitive “wet-on-wet” technique, she bypasses rigid details in favor of loose, gestural strokes and thick impasto textures that brilliantly capture the movement of light. From her sun-dappled birch forests to the signature coastal California wildflowers, Elley’s joyful, color-driven work seeks to draw the viewer directly into the scene. She is proudly represented in San Diego, California by Adelman Fine Art, where her originals are available and custom commissions are accepted.
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Evening At The Wharf, by Lisa Elley, is an original painting exclusively available by Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California. Available for Shipping/Delivery in June
24 × 36 × 1.5 inches | Oil on canvas
A quiet moment along the waterfront as evening light settles in. Evening at the Wharf captures a moored vessel, glowing dockside reflections, and the soft movement of water, built with expressive palette knife texture and layered coastal tones.
A refined, atmospheric piece for collectors drawn to working waterfront scenes with depth and presence.
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Sliplight, by Lisa Elley, is an original painting exclusively available by Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California. Available for Shipping/Delivery in June
24 × 36 × 1.5 inches | Oil on canvas
Inspired by the glow of late afternoon light across the harbor, Sliplight captures the elegance and movement of sailboats drifting through calm coastal waters. Built with expressive palette knife work and luminous reflections, the painting blends soft atmospheric color with bold passages of texture and light.
Painted on a 1.5” deep gallery-wrapped canvas with finished edges and wired ready to hang.
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Northbound Light, by Lisa Elley, is an original painting exclusively available by Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California. Available for Shipping/Delivery in June
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Along The Southern Coast, by Lisa Elley, is an original painting exclusively available by Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California. Available for Shipping/Delivery in June
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Flight of Grace, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
36x60x1.5” | Oil on canvas | $3,600
Pelicans have long been symbols of freedom and resilience along the California coast, and in Flight of Grace they sweep across the canvas in a breathtaking rhythm, wings outstretched, gliding just above the Pacific.
Created entirely with the palette knife, this large-scale oil painting is alive with texture and movement. Thick impasto strokes catch the light at different times of day, creating a living surface that shifts as you move around it. The horizon opens wide, the air feels salt-tinged and infinite, and the pelicans become guardians of stillness and motion all at once.
At 36x60 inches, this is a true statement piece, immersive, expansive, and designed to anchor a room with presence.
A love letter to the ocean, to flight, and to freedom, Flight of Grace embodies the spaciousness of the coast and the timeless beauty of nature’s effortless choreography.
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Venetian Bloom, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
Original Palette Knife Oil Painting
24 × 48 inches | Gallery Wrap Canvas (1.5” Deep Edges, Painted Sides)
Step through the arched alleyway into a moment that feels suspended in time, where roses spill over clay-colored walls, sunlight dances on ancient stone, and the turquoise water of Venice beckons beyond.
This richly textured palette knife piece captures the layered beauty of Italy’s timeless elegance: lush florals, aged facades, and that unmistakable sense of wandering toward something meaningful. A gondola rests quietly in the distance, reminding us that stillness can be arrival.
Painted in Lisa Elley’s signature impasto style, this 24x36 gallery wrap is alive with sculpted dimension and vibrant color. A portal piece for your home - romantic, immersive, and full of life.
• Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
• 1.5” deep sides, painted and ready to hang, no framing required
• Signed on front and back
• Wired and ready to install
• Certificate of authenticity included
• Varnished for protection and vibrancy
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When The Sky Softens, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
24 x 36 x 1.5” Oil on gallery wrap canvas
This piece came through on a calm coastal day, where the horizon blurred into a soft sky and the wildflowers danced without needing to be seen. I wasn’t painting a view, I was painting a breath. That gentle pause when the sea quiets, the air warms, and everything blooms just a little closer to stillness.
Layered in creamy impasto, the blooms stretch in soft blush, pale gold, and silvery lavender. The light moves across the canvas in hush-toned sweeps, capturing the hush and shimmer of a coastal morning.
This is for the collector who feels the ocean even when they can’t see it, who understands that presence doesn’t always arrive with fanfare. Sometimes, it just… settles in.
Signed on front and back. Wired and ready to hang.
• Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
• 1.5” deep sides, painted and ready to hang, no framing required
• Signed on front and back
• Wired and ready to install
• Certificate of authenticity included
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Amalfi Reverie, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
36 × 36 inches | Gallery Wrap Canvas (1.5” Deep Edges, Painted Sides)
A sweeping coastal bloom tumbles toward the Tyrrhenian Sea, where gentle waves meet a cliffside village bathed in morning light. Inspired by the timeless architecture of Italy’s Amalfi Coast, Amalfi Reverie captures the dreamlike quiet between movement and stillness, sailboats adrift, flowers unfurling, life paused in a golden breath.
Richly textured with palette knife strokes and soft coastal hues, this 36x36” original oil painting is part of the Grande Italies series, large-scale love letters to Italy’s enduring magic.
Signed on front and back. Wired and ready to hang.
• Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
• 1.5” deep sides, painted and ready to hang, no framing required
• Signed on front and back
• Wired and ready to install
• Certificate of authenticity included
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Afternoon Light, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
Oil on canvas | palette knife | 12×12×1.5”
Painted in layered oil with a palette knife, Afternoon Light captures a quiet still life held in soft, diffused light. The composition favors presence over detail, allowing form, texture, and color to do the work without urgency. Muted blues and warm neutrals create a sense of calm and balance, inviting the viewer to linger in the ordinary beauty of a moment at rest.
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Blush Along The Shore, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
Oil on canvas | palette knife | 12×12×1.5”
Soft blush florals rise along the coastline, set against a calm horizon and layered coastal light. Painted with a palette knife, this piece balances movement and stillness, loose, textured blossoms in the foreground and a steady, breathable sea beyond. The muted spring palette and simplified forms allow the painting to feel open and unforced, capturing the quiet moment where land, water, and season meet.
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PALETTE OF THE PACIFIC, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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GOLDEN GATE GLOW, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
To make an appointment or to reserve a painting, please contact us directly:
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Stillness In Flight by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available on AdelmanFineArt.com
This piece comes from an earlier chapter of Lisa's work and is part of her studio archive.
Archive paintings are offered at a reduced studio price and represent a finite selection. They remain original, completed works, distinct from her current body of work and pricing.
A soft blaze of sun slips across the ocean as a formation of pelicans glides overhead, silent, weightless, certain. This textured seascape captures a luminous low tide along the California coast, where sea foam meets sandstone and flight becomes a ceremony. The sky opens in hues of lavender, apricot, and turquoise, holding both stillness and motion in the same breath. One of Lisa Elley’s first pelican paintings, this piece marks the beginning of a new conversation with the coastal winged ones, sentinels of instinct, rhythm, and return.
• 24 × 24 × 1.5”D inches
• Oil on gallery-wrapped canvas (unframed)
• Palette knife impasto texture
• Wired and ready to hang
• Signed on the front and back
• Certificate of Authenticity included
Complimentary shipping in the US
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Wild Coast, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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Echoes of Golden Light by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available on AdelmanFineArt.com. This showcase piece is offsite, in the artist's studio. Please request additional pictures or videos.
This statement piece captures the hush and brilliance of autumn at its peak, the moment when golden light filters through birch trees and everything seems to slow down in reverence. Inspired by the Sierra Nevada mountains, and painted with a palette knife in rich impasto texture, the scene is alive with movement: leaves in burnished amber and saffron, cool shadows in deep indigo, and a quiet stream reflecting it all back.
At six feet wide, Echoes of Golden Light anchors a space with warmth, grandeur, and grounded elegance. It’s bold but serene, ideal for collectors looking for a showpiece that tells a story without saying a word.
This is not just a painting, it’s a feeling. A place to return to. A breath you forgot you were holding.
36”Hx72”Wx2.25”D. Archival, museum edge Fredrix Canvas
Sides are painted with continuous pattern and colors
Signed front and back
Certificate of Authenticity
Complimentary Crated shipping within the US, or courier service within California
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Whispers Between Petals, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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Edge Of Quiet, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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Bougainvillea Breeze, by Lisa Elley from the Little Italies series, available on AdelmanFineArt.com
6x6” | Oil on canvas | Palette knife impasto
A vibrant window into the romance of the Italian Riviera, this miniature impasto escape captures sunlit bougainvillea spilling over ancient stone, and the unmistakable joy of Italian summer. Painted with my signature palette knife technique, this piece is part of my Little Italies series, a love letter to lemony light, cliffside magic, and slow days by the sea.
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PACIFIC GLOW, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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SEASIDE SYMPHONY, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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SUNSET COAST, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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Morning At The Marina, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available via Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
* SOLD *
This painting is off site. For more information, additional photos or videos, please contact the gallery:
Phone/Text #619-354-5969; Email [email protected]
Fresh off the Easel!
30 × 48 × 1.5 inches | Oil on canvas
Inspired by an early morning sketching trip to the Moss Landing Marina in the Monterey Bay, this large-scale coastal painting captures the soft atmospheric light, reflective harbor waters, and lively energy of the working waterfront as seabirds circled and called overhead and low over the waterline.
Built with expressive palette knife texture, the piece balances quiet morning tones with moments of warmth and movement, creating depth, atmosphere, and a strong sense of place grounded in California’s coastal landscape.
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Driftline, by Lisa Elley, is an original painting at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California
24 × 36 × 1.5 inches | Oil on canvas
An atmospheric sailboat painting inspired by the soft coastal light and reflective harbor waters of Southern California’s waterfronts. Painted in layered mineral blues, warm creams, and muted coastal tones, Driftline balances movement and stillness with expressive palette knife texture and luminous reflections across the water.
Finished on a 1.5” deep gallery-wrapped canvas with painted edges and wired ready to hang.
This painting has sold. Please contact us if you’re interested in a similar painting.
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Reflections of Italia, by Lisa Elley is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
**SOLD**
6x6” | Oil on canvas | Palette knife impasto
Complimentary shipping in the US
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WAVES AND WILDFLOWERS, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
***SOLD***
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Coastal Odyssey, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
***SOLD***
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Haven, by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
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CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available at Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California. ***SOLD***
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Poppy Tides by artist Lisa Elley, is an original painting available through Adelman Fine Art Gallery in San Diego, California.
This piece comes from an earlier chapter of Lisa's work and is part of her studio archive. It is offsite, and not available for viewings at the gallery, but additional pics and videos can be provided upon request.
Archive paintings are offered at a reduced studio price and represent a finite selection. They remain original, completed works, distinct from Lisa's current body of work and pricing.
Inspired by the iconic California coastline, this piece captures the wild beauty of vibrant orange poppies, rugged bluffs, and aqua ocean blues. The thick impasto texture and modern palette bring a sense of movement and life, playing up the charm and atmosphere of California’s dramatic coastline.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24"H x 24"W x 1.5"D on archival cotton gallery wrap canvas, stretched on wooden bars
Artist Signature: Signed on both front and back
Edges: Sides painted with continuous colors
Display: Ready to hang, wire attached
Certification: Includes Certificate of Authenticity
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