Lisa was born in Timaru, New Zealand in 1973 and graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts & Design in 2010 in Nelson, NZ. Living in rural Glenhope, Lisa’s studio sits high on a hill surrounded by 42 acres of pasture and native forest.

With her own personal journey raising children as inspiration, she draws from nostalgic moments in an attempt to alleviate the solace of ‘the empty nest’. Lisa uses imagery of children with flowers, animals and insects questioning young people’s view of the world, seeing a disconnection from nature with modern technology. 

Lisa emphasizes this with her use of large white vacant space, creating a cavity to which her subjects float, this is the artist’s expression of the uncertainty of our future; it cannot be foreseen. 

She also likes to involve the viewer into the work via the reflective surface. By looking/reading the gaze is returned, the spectator becomes the narrative and in turn, part of the problem and solution.

These artworks are created on the reverse side of Perspex (clear acrylic), so everything you are looking at has been meticulously hand painted backwards then the sheet of Perspex is flipped around revealing the artwork.