Twelve Years of Trust: A Reflection on My Journey with UGallery
Longevity is one of the rarest currencies in the art world.
Trends move quickly. Platforms change. Attention shifts.
What lasts, truly lasts, is built on trust, patience, and the willingness to grow together over time.
This week, UGallery published a feature interview about my work, my process, my history, and the way texture and landscape have shaped my artistic language.
You can read the full article here:
👉 https://www.ugallery.com/blogs/artist-interviews/lisa-elley
As I read it, what struck me most wasn’t seeing my own words reflected back, it was realizing how rare a 12-year partnership truly is in the art world.
UGallery and I began working together over a decade ago, long before social media algorithms, constant content cycles, or overnight success stories became the norm. Over the years, my life has changed in real ways, raising children, relocating studios, evolving my work, weathering economic shifts, and continuing to show up to the canvas day after day.
Through all of it, this partnership has remained steady.
That kind of longevity doesn’t come from hype.
It comes from trust.
Trust in the work.
Trust in the artist’s evolution.
Trust that a career can be built slowly, honestly, and with integrity.
The interview touches on many parts of my process, my palette-knife technique, my love of California landscapes, my travels, and the way texture has become my primary language. But what is subtext, is the quiet, unglamorous consistency behind the scenes.
The thousands of hours alone in the studio.
The seasons of refinement.
The willingness to let the work mature alongside the person making it.
That’s what a long partnership holds space for.
I’m deeply grateful to UGallery for continuing to support artists not just at a moment in time, but across the arc of a career. Being featured after twelve years doesn’t feel like a peak, it feels like a marker of continuity.
And continuity, in a creative life, is everything.
If you’d like to browse my exclusively represented portfolio on Ugallery, tap the link below
👉 https://www.ugallery.com/pages/lisa-elley
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