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Transportation: Lisa Milroy is an Anglo-Canadian artist known for her still life paintings of everyday objects. She documents her household objects, frequently arranged in rows or patterns on top of the plain backgrounds. She also produces a lot of different paintings like portraits, landscapes and buildings but in her recent work, most notably her series of objects Milroy finds inspiration for her works in cinematography, particularly in the soap opera genre and this romanticism conveys a sense of mood and tenderness. This can be traced in her works, from the application of materials to the colours that she chooses. Her ideology is that “What surrounds you is yourself” and in the objects that she chooses, she shows herself as a person through her work. Lisa Milroy’s drawings are generally in acrylic and watercolour paint. After seeing her art it is easy to notice the lack of background colour. She prefers to give attention entirely to the physical object so as not to distract the
