I love maps. I have always been inexplicably drawn to them. I love what they say about a place, its history, and how it fits into our worldview. I love how they unlock the secrets to navigating our way through our world as well as finding our place within it. To understand the map of a thing is to understand that thing. This is true for buildings, parks, homes, people, animals, trees, anything and everything exists somewhere on a map. My work explores this through the creation of each map while also considering what makes each uniquely beautiful. There is so much in our world that is fleeting and my work strives to capture and celebrate what I can before it fades from our view or morphs into something completely different. I want my art to document what was, what is, and what shall be. I do this by meticulously studying each subject and drawing and redrawing it until I find what is distinctive about it. I look for the eloquence in a meandering riverway or the forceful pace of a chaotic highway. I look for how the map can be abstracted until one is lost in the details of it and it no longer resembles a chart but more a feeling of a place. Once I find what I want my painting to focus on, I transform it into bright paint pigments transmuted by water with brushes until it becomes something uniquely mine.

Based in rural Ayer, Massachusetts, Lisa attended Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt), receiving a BFA with a major in Illustration in 1998. She later returned to her alma mater for further study and received a graduate graphic design certificate and found work as a graphic designer/event planner. During this time her work became less design-centric and lacking the creative focus that originally drew her to art school, she found herself regretting the decision to not pursue a path in visual arts. With the arrival of the pandemic, she saw her work hours reduced and was eventually laid off and determined not to let a second chance pass her by and threw herself back into her artwork. 

Through all this time, art had always been extremely important to Lisa. She made sure to keep painting and being creative whenever possible and found she was never as happy as when she was in the hallowed halls of a beloved museum. Now that she is pursuing her dreams of being a full-time artist, she knows that she is doing what is finally right for her. And thus, she is currently taking continuing education classes from MassArt, Fivesparks Community Arts Collaborative, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, as well as the Fruitlands Museum. She is a member of the Concord Center for the Visual Arts and has done illustration work for both non-profits as well as corporations. As of March of 2020, her illustrative work has also appeared in print. She is now 100% dedicated to pursuing her art wherever it takes her and finding her place as an artist.