Consultation
We discuss the subject, story, emotional intention, preferred scale, and where the work will live.
Commissions are open
Your story,
made visible.
“A portrait made for you—not simply a photograph reproduced in paint.”
Photographs begin the conversation. They are references, never instructions for duplication. Through consultation, composition, color, environment, subject, and symbol, Lacy uses artistic license to create an original work of art that carries the meaning behind the person portrayed.
Begin a CommissionCommission story 01
Percy
A portrait conceived for a room, a ritual, and the way one client wanted to live with music.
Portrait as environment
The client had acquired a 1970s hi-fi stereo and record player to create a room for music and meditation. She shared photographs of the wall, furniture, décor, palette, and the room’s intended function.
Those details became part of the portrait’s visual vocabulary: headphones, the receiver, sage and olive tones, warm oranges, concentric forms, and a posture of deep listening. The result was not decoration added after the fact. It was a work conceived to belong to the life of the room.
Commission story 02
The Struggle Was Real
A portrait shaped by a woman’s experience with breast cancer and the complicated work of recognizing beauty through change.
Beauty, interrupted—and reclaimed
Lisa’s portrait speaks to hair loss, femininity, identity, and the tension between internal and external beauty during breast-cancer treatment. Floral forms move across her skin and gather around her body—not to conceal what happened, but to give transformation its own visual language.
The portrait does not reproduce a single photograph. It translates an experience: struggle, vulnerability, persistence, and the insistence that beauty remains present even when its familiar markers have changed.
Reference, not replica
From photograph
to interpretation
A photograph preserves likeness. A commissioned painting must also create atmosphere, emphasis, rhythm, and meaning.
The client’s love of canary yellow—and the color and character of her décor—became the foundation of the painting’s palette. Because she is also drawn to collage, Lacy developed the portrait through a postmodern mixed-media approach, moving beyond the source photograph to create a work shaped around the client’s personal world.
Meaningful excerpts from poetry and personal journal writings were printed and collaged into the background. Partially revealed through layers of paint, the words become both texture and testimony: fragments of the life she has lived and quiet declarations of the new season she is entering.
How it works
The commission process
Your story is the starting point. The process is collaborative, while the finished work remains unmistakably an original Lacy painting.
References
You share photographs and, when relevant, images of the room, furnishings, meaningful objects, colors, and symbols.
Direction
Lacy develops the composition and visual language, using artistic license rather than copying a photograph.
Painting
The portrait is built by hand through drawing, color, surface, symbolism, and oil paint.
Completion
Final details, curing, presentation, delivery, or shipping are coordinated directly with the client.
Individuals · Families · Legacy portraits
Let’s make
something lasting.
Contact Lacy to discuss the person, story, setting, and symbolism your portrait should hold.
Begin a Commission