Lisa Grennell

Lisa moved back to her home country from Australia 17 years ago to raise her three children.
Now living on the South Island in rural Glenhope, Lisa’s studio sits high on a hill surrounded by pasture and native forest. She has chosen a more simplistic lifestyle with solar and wind turbine for power and natural streams and rain for water, Lisa feels her art is stripped to a more simplistic aesthetic. “I am at the mercy of nature.”

With her own personal journey raising children as inspiration, she draws from nostalgic moments in an attempt to alleviate the solace of ‘the empty nest’. Lisa uses imagery of children with flowers, animals and insects questioning young people’s view of the world, seeing a disconnection from nature with modern technology. “I often wonder what the future holds for following generations....."