Lisa’s illustrating history
Lisa graduated with a B.A. Hons Degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from Norwich School of Art in 1989 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
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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 and for wholesale and licensing, and loves to connect her work with folk at fairs, markets and art festivals.
Lisa has wide experience in providing artwork for children’s story anthologies, reference books and other fiction and non-fiction areas, and has her own picture book story ideas and has written a whimsical children’s fantasy novel that she would love to do something with one day.
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.
She also carries out interior murals (ask for examples, there are loads) and takes part in public art projects too.
About Lisa herself…
Lisa was born and brought up in West Molesey near Hampton Court. She went on to live in Norwich for four years while at Art College, and then spent five years in York, which is where she started her illustration career proper, with regular trips to publishers, magazines and designers in London and beyond. In 1994 she went on a cycling holiday to Dorset and within eight months had moved there to live by the sea in Poole, a place she can’t imagine ever moving away from.
Lisa loves being active and to get out on her mountain bike, swims regularly in the sea, draw in her sketchbook , travel around to fairs and markets in her lovely little ‘camper’ van and generally be outdoors as much as she can.
Her son was born in 2005, and being his mum has been her most favourite job in the world. He is a fellow music lover, she now has a great gig buddy when he’s home from uni!
She enjoys exploring new places, seeing new art, gig-going as often as she can and spending time with her family and lovely friends and visits the family caravan in St Ives Bay as often as she can.
Favourite Artists and Writers
Tove Jansson, Eric Ravilious, Tirzah Garwood, Edward Bawden, Reginald Pepper, Alfred Wallis, Marc Chagall, Edward Gorey, 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 and Bruce Chatwin amongst many.
Some Favourite Music
The Divine Comedy, Keane, Blur, Gang of Youths, Wolf Alice, Chapelle Roan, Everything Everything, Elton John, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Kate Bush, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, Barbara the Band, The Carpenters, George Michael, The Sundays, David Bowie, Weyes Blood, Roddy Frame, The Beatles, Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem, Aimee Mann, The Cardigans, and so very many more!