Lisa's passions for art and nature started early in life. She started oil painting at the age of 7, but was encouraged to devote her academic studies to "something more practical". At the age of 17, she was selected for a National Science Foundation scholarship to be part of a glaciological research expedition on the Juneau Icefields in Alaska. She spent two summers traversing the glaciers, drawing and researching the geological, and climatological histories embedded in their flows. Her photographs and accounts of these experiences were published in “The Power of Ice”, a book published by Chicago Children’s Press that she co-authored to encourage other youngsters to pursue field sciences.

 

At Stanford University, she pressed hard to be accepted into their Paris based studies program, knowing she might be able to combine her dream of studying art, whilst still pursuing her work in the earth sciences. She spent 8 months studying coursework at L’Ecole des Mines de Paris, and Sciences Po—but spent much of her time in the museums, and doing short courses in painting.

 

She continued this pattern of short course work throughout her time as a master’s student at Stanford,  and as a financial analyst, and later a management consultant in NYC; always with hopes of filling her toolbox with artistic skills, for the moment she could become the artist she’d dreamed of becoming.

 

Whilst raising her 4 children in New Jersey, London, Tokyo, and Quebec, she studied constantly. Her schooling includes studies with a Master of Sumi-e in Tokyo, painting and drawing at Central St. Martins, and the Royal Drawing School in London, and the study of traditional oil techniques with the Jean Pierre Brazs Atelier in Paris, and the Norfolk Painting School. She acquired her love for, and many of her foundational techniques in encaustic art through Mulranny Arts in Ireland.

 

Artist residencies include time (and focuses) in Cuba (people, and colour), California (environment, and the sea), Kyoto (calligraphy and substrates), and the Tyrolean Alps (light and atmosphere in the Alps). 

 

Her works are united by her love of the environment, and her bewilderment at human behaviours. Humor is important, as is moving beyond the surface and mining the layers of moments and experiences for the truths hidden within.

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She is passionate about the role of creativity in solving so many of the problems we humans face, and has run workshops on maximising creativity with many corporate and private entities. Having grown up in an environment without easy access, nor appreciation for the arts, she has and continues to do similar pro-bono work with disenfranchised communities including refugees, homeless mothers and children, and schools without the resources to include art in their curriculums.

 

​Having recently realised her dream of moving to the French Alps, Lisa has now come full circle and is combining her love for the earth with her responses to humanity. Her earth science degree, her Master's in International Policy Studies, her toolbox full of art techniques, and bewilderment at human behaviours are all to be found in the moments of  pause, joy, tension, and light, in the many layers of her work.

 

She has exhibited widely in London, Paris, NY, Silicon Valley, Edinburgh, Xian, Dhaka, and Kyoto; in exhibitions including Miami Basel, Venice Biennale, Asian Biennale, and the historical Parisian Salons. Her works are held in corporate, state, and private collections in Japan, France, Sweden, China, Austria, the UK, Canada, and throughout the USA.