Visual Art – Montréal

Avid adventurer, painter and popcorn eater - Lisa has dabbled in art for what feels like her whole life and is presumed to have been able to draw, well before she was even ready to step out of diapers. When Lisa truly got into creating artwork on a regular basis, however, it was the summer of 2015, not '69. Her father, Jean-Pierre, came home with a soldering iron from his local Dollarama and began burning silly things into formerly lifeless pieces of wood. Not only was the aroma of campfire from the soldering enough to make this an attractive art form to adopt, Lisa thought it looked damn cool, so she stole borrowed it and began drawing animals and people that danced poetically across the grains of the timber. She would mix this with watered down acrylic paint to add a little punch of colour. Fast-forward a few years later and Lisa found herself, like many great artists in India. There she stood mesmerised watching local watercolour artists display their magic, inspiring her to begin narrowing down her focus towards - you guessed it - watercolour painting. Art is such a ride to discovery, isn't it? On sunny days, Lisa catches herself walking around whichever city she is in and being drawn to people watching. She becomes captured by the uniqueness of individuals and the love that they exude amongst each other. Whether it is at the Tam-Tams on Mont-Royal in Montreal, Oxford Street in Sydney, or Lake Pichola in Udaipur - Lisa gets absolutely immersed visually. People are so telling, whether in their actions, their clothing options (or lack thereof), or their sexuality. Capturing the spirit of what they make her feel in the moment is why she focuses primarily on the human figure in her artworks. Lisa is a Montreal-born artist who has been living in Canada and Australia, on and off, for the past 10 years. Currently residing in Plateau-Mont-Royal with her partner, you can sometimes spot her creating her next piece in Parc Lafontaine.