Modern living room with a large painting of a fall forest landscape on the wall, a beige sofa with pillows, a round coffee table with vases, a potted plant, a floor lamp, and a large window with natural light.

Commission an Original Oil Painting

Interested in a Commission?

Lisa Elley creates large-scale original palette knife paintings and custom commissions for private residences, collectors, and interior design projects throughout California and across the United States. Inspired by California’s coastal landscapes, Monterey Bay, sailboats, working waterfronts, harbor scenes, wildflowers, and the Pacific coastline, each commission is created as an original interpretation of a place or subject with personal meaning. Whether you’re looking for a statement-sized landscape, a custom waterfront scene, or a painting inspired by a favorite place, commissions are accepted on a limited basis.

California coastal commissions can be inspired by a meaningful stretch of shoreline, family place, property, or travel memory.

If you’d like to explore the possibility of a custom painting, you’re warmly invited to get in touch with Lisa using the form below or by emailing info@lisaelley.com

You're welcome to include photo references of your subject matter to begin the conversation. Lisa will be happy to discuss details such as size, color palette, and timing via email.

A Commission Info PDF is available upon request, it includes current pricing, FAQs, and everything you need to know about the process.

All commissioned works are created on archival-quality, gallery-wrapped canvas using professional-grade oil paints. Each piece features painted sides for a clean, modern finish and arrives wired and ready to hang (framing not included).

Please allow 6 to 10 weeks for completion, depending on Lisa’s current schedule and the required dry time for oils.

Visualize Your Commission

Choosing the perfect painting is easier when you can see it in your own space. As part of the commission process, Lisa creates complimentary digital mock-ups using a photo of your room, allowing you to preview the artwork at scale before painting begins. It's a simple way to refine size, placement, and composition with confidence, ensuring the finished piece feels as though it was created especially for your home.

Below is an example of a mockup, and then the actual installed painting in the Chicago home of Lisa’s collector.

A modern kitchen with a brick wall, stainless steel refrigerator, light grey cabinets, a white countertop with a sink, and a row of four bar stools at a kitchen island. There is a snowflake-shaped light fixture hanging from the ceiling, a window with black framing, a painting of flowers on the brick wall, and a beige sofa with black and gold pillows nearby.
Modern kitchen with stainless steel appliances, a white island with four chairs, brick wall, large windows, abstract art, and a small white dresser with a lamp.

Commission Pricing

Original commissions are available in a range of sizes, with pricing beginning at $800. Larger and custom-scale paintings are quoted individually. A 50% deposit reserves your commission, with the balance due prior to shipping or delivery.

Details of available sizes for a product, showing size 16 x 20 inches with a starting price of $800 and a note to inquire about other sizes and prices.

Narrative Landscape Commissions

Some places carry a story as much as a view. Narrative landscape commissions combine meaningful locations, movement, and personal details with my expressive palette-knife style.

These paintings may include a favorite coastline, journey, property, activity, or loosely rendered human presence, while keeping atmosphere, texture, color, and sense of place at the center.

Each piece is developed collaboratively from photographs, references, and conversation, then interpreted as an original painting rather than copied literally.

Narrative commissions are individually priced based on size, complexity, and subject matter.

An oil painting of two men on a sailboat with colorful produce, sailing on choppy waters under a dynamic sky, with additional sailboats in the distance.
A woman in a grass skirt and floral lei standing on a beach at sunset, facing the ocean, with palm trees and flowers in the foreground.
A woman stands inside an art store next to a colorful oil painting of a boat on water with two men, one talk and the other seated, surrounded by fruits. The store features display walls with picture frame samples on the left, and various framed artwork on the right and behind the woman.

Carried by the Trade Winds & Hula at Sunset. Private Kauai Narrative Commission

Explore selected Commission Stories to see how meaningful places, personal references, and collector ideas are developed into finished original paintings.

Let’s work together.

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