Hi, I'm Lisa

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I’m a born and bred New Yorker although two transformative years truly shaped my life …living in rural, Amish Country Lancaster, PA with extended family as a young child and volunteering on a kibbutz in Israel after high school.

My late mom was an impressionist artist and while I posed often for her, I never felt inclined to pick up a brush – brushes felt and still feel quite foreign to me.  I kept all my mom’s art supplies never thinking I would do anything with them.

In January 2021 I bought a small house upstate New York close to where I spent childhood summers at sleep away camp.  The sights, sounds and smells take me back to those carefree days and opened me up to explore creative expression.

In January 2023, I challenged myself to “do something creative every day” and broke out mom's art supplies…Artistic expression is very different than my 30+ year career producing television commercials for numerous advertising agencies.

My abstract style, is what a friend coined “Chaotic Calm.” I use vibrant colors and marking tools without a plan of where a piece will go…I love turning and rotating while creating... seeing different points of view and enjoy the surprises that reveal themselves

I go out to my 200-year-old barn studio, turn on music and tune out the real world. I have no phone service so I can disconnect and just dig into playing with art materials. I work with various mediums, mostly acrylic on paper or cradled wood panels.  I very much enjoy collaging, mark making, stitching, gel plate and letterpress printing and scouring for vintage ephemera.