Influenced heavily by Hokusai and Degas in her line work, Kandinsky in her liberation of the composition and color choices, and the impressionists for their mastery at capturing a moment of light and wonder--her work attempts to layer and to reveal emotions and questions we often miss in our time pressured world. Passionate about the science of materials, as well as the aesthetics; Lisa seeks to combine her knowledge of pigments, pixels, mediums, porosities, viscosities, and substrates in ways that can maximise the effects of light, depth, histories, and emotions on 2D surfaces. Her process involves the layering of painted layers, hot waxes, often pigmented, sometimes embedding inked rice papers, and other collage materials, carving back, scraping back, adding more, sanding back, adding more, until she finds a balance between what she is seeking to express, and the vicissitudes of the mediums uses to express it. She is a born rebel and loves to push materials in ways not before researched. She was a pioneer in the digital art world using brushed aluminium and cold waxes in her works, and is rapidly pioneering new, sustainable processes in the encaustic world. Using encaustics parallels the processes she learned in her geology studies--the laying down of volcanic layers, the layers of sediment, the fusing through heat and pressure, the carving and erosion to reveal past layers, the constant adding and subtracting that reveals not only our earth's stories but also our own. When we only look at the surface we miss so very much. When we make space to pause, to question, to invite in the unexpected, we enrich our journeys, and create the possibilities or enriching those around us.