Lisa’s Story
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, The Lady Magazine, Dorset County Council, Barefoot Books, Nelson Thornes Publishing, Oxford University Press, Sainsbury’s PLC, BBC publishing and many more
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She provides illustrations for magazine articles, stories, horoscopes and cartoons, children’s fairytale anthology books, educational books and non-fiction titles as well as designs for packaging, maps, pattern design and all sorts of visuals for use in design applications. Her work is also available for wholesale and licensing.
She also creates illustrations and designs for her own collection of greetings cards, prints and homewares which sells at selected venues in her local area of Dorset and other locations in the UK, and in her website and Etsy shops, as well as at fairs and festivals, details of which can be found in her Events page here.
Lisa is currently working on her children’s folio with new illustrations and is working on her own stories and ideas.
Her work incorporated drawing, printmaking and digital techniques, often including her own words and hand-drawn lettering. with narrative and figurative elements, inspiration from myths and folktales, the sea, landscape, children’s literature and nature amongst many other influences.
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A bit about Lisa herself…
Lisa was born and brought up in West Molesey near Hampton Court, Surrey, and then went on to live in Norwich while at Art College, and then in York for five years. In 1995 she moved to be by the sea in Poole, Dorset, a place she can’t imagine ever moving away from.
She loves being outdoors, cycling and swimming in the sea in particular She has been quoted as saying she actually enjoys it!
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, 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, Charles Dickens, Alfred Wallis, Marc Chagall, Paul Nash, Maurice Sendak, Mark Hearld, Julian Barnes, Harold Jones, Anthony Green, Jeanette Winterson, Richard Eurich, Bruce Chatwin, Frida Kahlo, Karl Larsson.
Some Favourite Music
Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Divine Comedy, Keane, Blur, Gang of Youths, Everything Everything, Elton John, Michael Nyman, Kate Bush, Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics, The Carpenters, Frank Sinatra, George Michael, The Sundays, Talking Heads, Aimee Mann, The Cardigans, and so very much more!