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Artist’s Note

- January 2018 Note from Lisa
  December 28, 2017I am enjoying a house sit assignment in New Mexico this month. Last year as you may recall I spent an extra month in New Mexico because my van was struck by a hit-and-run driver. I had to cancel 2 months of art shows and it drastically altered the direction of my map business. But good things happened…I made some friends here in this land of enchantment, and I made a beautiful map of the Basque del Apache. When I’m able to stay in a place for a month at a time I’m able to connect with the area and discover something special about it, and my natural inclination is to create a map. I’m taking house sitting appointments for next winter. If you have a home in a southern clime and invite me and Jojo to care for your critters, you may well come home to a map! Please, let me know if you are interested in a caretaker when you take your winter vacation- you will be offering this Montana artist a chance to experience someplace mapworthy! Please enjoy January’s discount code site wide! Please use discount code 18sale for 18% off your whole order for the month of January 2018! ... Read more...

Past Artist Notes

What the Press are Saying

“The most interesting appeal is the color and beauty of the maps. This is where Lisa Middleton…loves to use her special talent in color, blending and her sensitivity to the joys that maps hold for us as collectors.” Sandy Erdman, Rochester Post Bulletin July 4, 2015.

“She’s turned [that] fascination into an art — finding, restoring and replicating old maps, then creating art on top of the prints.” Abby Eisenburg, Winona Daily News June 13, 2013.

“Middleton is doing more than making art, she’s helping to preserve history.” Chris Peterson, Hungry Horse News May 13, 2015.

“In her hands, a torn black-and-white 1883
plat of Montana Territory blossoms into a
vividly colored snapshot of what the land
once was. It remains a map by definition, but
by execution it is now an ornate showpiece fit
for the living room wall, touched by an artist’s
hand with its essential purpose still intact.”
Myers Reese, Montana Quarterly Fall, 2014.

“Many different things can make a map
interesting. Sometimes many places on the
map have disappeared…Sometimes a map
reality and fantasy…’I like to work on maps
with history, maps of places people love, maps
that have stories,’Middleton said.”
Big River Magazine, Summer 2013.

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