Lisa Boepens
Artist
Lisa Boepens
Location
Namibia
Creating
Painting
Lisa Boepens is a San artist living in rural Namibia, whose deep knowledge of traditional plants flows directly into her work. Working primarily in oil and watercolor on paper, her paintings draw on close observation and cultural memory, rendering plants and wildlife not as distant subjects but as familiar presences.
Boepens has participated in multiple community-based art workshops and has exhibited her work in Namibia and South Africa. Her practice reflects a deep connection to place and an intimate understanding of indigenous plant life, often translating traditional knowledge into contemporary visual form. Through restrained composition and careful attention to color, her works position nature as both subject and inheritance.
Proud Mary acquired this original piece through Omba Arts Trust, an organization that since 2002 has traveled to remote regions in Namibia to support and work alongside emerging San artists.
