Lisa’s illustrating history
Lisa graduated with a B.A. Hons Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Norwich School of Art (a long time ago!) and since then has created illustrations for a wide range of clients including Fortnum and Mason, The Londonist, Badger Brewery, BBC Magazines, Dorset County Council, Barefoot Books, Nelson Thornes Publishing, Oxford University Press, Sainsbury’s PLC, BBC publishing and many more
. She very much loves to work on commissions to this day.
She also creates illustrations for her own ranges of greetings cards, prints and homewares which are sold in her online shops and in selected shops and galleries. These items are allso offered for wholesale and licensing. She loves to sell face to face and connect her work with folk at fairs and festivals; details of which can be found in her Events page.
Lisa is currently creating illustrations for the children’s stories that she has written and will be showcasing them here and self publishing some in the very near future. She has a lot of experience in providing artwork for children’s story anthologies and reference books and is always open to chat about ideas in that area.
Her work incorporates drawing, hand-printing and digital techniques, often including her own words and hand-drawn lettering. Themes are always in the narrative and figurative realms, with inspiration coming from myths and folktales, the sea, landscape, children’s literature and nature amongst many other places.
A bit about Lisa herself…
Lisa was born and brought up on the outer reaches of South West London in West Molesey near Hampton Court. She went on to live in Norwich for four years while at Art College, a place she will always think very fondly of. She then spent five years in York, first going there on a bit of a whim but really loved starting her illustration career there at a place called ‘The Young Business Project’, where she rented a studio among all sorts of other start-ups. It was a place she learned a lot about running a business and being an artist. In 1994 she went on a cycling holiday to Dorset, and within eight months she had moved there to live by the sea in Poole, a place she can’t imagine ever moving away from!
She loves being outdoors and to go out on her mountain bike, and regularly swims in the sea, having been heard to say that she actually enjoys it in the winter!
Her son was born in 2005 and being his mum is her most favourite job in the world. He is now at University so now there are no football matches/school runs and general lovely day to day mum stuff to do, she has invested in a new van to do a bit of travelling about with her art.
She enjoys exploring new places at home and abroad, see live music as often as she can, go on trips in her little ‘camper’ van, spend time with her friends and loves to visit the family caravan in St Ives Bay as often as her busy life allows.
Favourite Artists and Writers
Tove Jansson, Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Alfred Wallis, Marc Chagall, Edward Corey, Thé Tjong-Khing, Paul Nash, Frida Kahlo, Karl Larsson, Richard Eurich, Maurice Sendak, Harold Jones, Anthony Green, Charles Dickens, Jeanette Winterson, Julian Barnes, John Irving, Bruce Chatwin,
Some Favourite Music
The Divine Comedy, Keane, Blur, Gang of Youths, Everything Everything, Elton John, Michael Nyman, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Kate Bush, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Barbara the Band, The Carpenters, George Michael, The Sundays, Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Aimee Mann, The Cardigans, and so very many more!