Hi, I’m Lisa, and I’d like to share a little bit about my creative journey. 

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I was the kid that drew endlessly throughout childhood, with a particular fascination for nature and animals, which could possibly be traced back to all the Enid Blyton pony books I read, or my reading (and re reading) of the Narnia series. 

 

I was (still am) the ultimate day dreamer, which works well for an artist, as the ability to imagine and see things that are not necessarily there, and to interpret what I see and speak with a unique artistic voice, is integral to creating art. 

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The sensible advice I received at school was to pursue a creative training that might set me on a promising career path, so having studied I worked as a graphic designer and landscape designer before having my 3 children (I married a fellow daydreamer and nature loving man). 

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A few years ago, after a sense that it was not too late for me to express myself again artistically, I decided to pick up the paintbrush and have a go. Largely self taught, and moving away from the technical drawing I was trained in, I have been on a journey to rediscover my artistic voice. I am finding that the older I get, the more free I become in my identity, which directly corresponds to what you see on a canvas. 

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My faith and spirituality are deeply woven through everything I create. Beauty and light represent something deeper for me and I aim to paint the inspiration I get from the source of light and life. Painting becomes one of the ways I honour God, and my practice often feels contemplative, and much like prayer.

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With a great love of the natural world, we live on the edge of 100 acres of bushland in the east of Melbourne, not far from the beautiful Yarra Valley. 

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I work primarily in acrylics, from photos that I take during every day life: mostly whilst walking my dog. I work with a planned approach but I stay open to interpretation as a painting unfolds: here I might paint some leaves pink, or change the tone of the sky. (I am tempted to make every sky I paint dusk or dawn, as they are the time a heart swells with beauty and hope, and this is the experience I would give to every viewer of my work, if I could.)

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My hope is that my paintings invite people to pause: to notice beauty, reflect, and reconnect with a sense of presence. That a heart might create space for stillness, and perhaps encounter something meaningful in the quiet.