About Lisa

Born in Essex, I grew up next to the clay pits in South Ockendon, the London clay was mixed into a slurry and pumped under the Thames to the cement works in North Kent. Privet bushes were my main source of entertainment and I would jump into the dense foliage and enjoy how it caught my impression.

Later I studied Ceramics at Cardiff Institute where one of the projects was to dig up clay from my home town and study it. At the same time, I wrote down the recipe on how to make a privet ash glaze, not really recognising the significance at the time. 25 years later I returned to my hometown and collected the privet trimmings from the same bushes I jumped in and I am currently making a privet ash glazed pot.  

I have recently had a solo show at Test Space, Spike Island and was selected to show at the ‘167 Annual Open’ and ‘Sculpture Open’ RWA Bristol and I am co-director of Plenderleith Scantlebury Fine art fabricators based at Spike Island, Bristol.

I live and work in Bristol.