Lisa Houck has been painting watercolors for thirty years. Many of the works are small and intimate; others are big enough that you feel as if you can walk into the picture. In this medium, Houck uses tiny brushes to obsessively pattern the surfaces in her landscapes. In Art New England, Meredith Fife Day wrote: The more actively configured Houck's surfaces are, the more her strengths of color and shape organization are brought to the fore. Big, spacious planes simply do not work in her vocabulary. Once we enter Houck's pictures, reminders of the spaces of our real world would be intrusive-better to take these lumpy, wiggly mounds of earth and spiky five-fingered palm trees on their own terms of decorative form and droll narrative."