Studio 7: 66 Rock Street
Prints & textile collage
www.lisagrey.com
lisa@lisagrey.com
603.436.4859
Lisa has been transforming textiles and paper with paint, ink, dyes, glue and stitch for as long as she can remember. Known for her innovative work with disperse dyes, particularly marbling synthetic fabrics, she enjoys searching for alternative methods of achieving a desired result. Other notable bodies of work include creating stitched baskets nesting in metal stands and a multiple year project of double exposure self portraits.
Lisa creating in her studio, by Kiely Photography.
Lisa’s current work continues to explore all aspects of what captures her interest on a daily basis, often repurposing life’s detritus including, but hardly limited to altering assorted fabrics and ephemera collected over the years into collages large and small. Lisa lives with her husband Peter Happny, an ornamental blacksmith, near the New Hampshire seacoast in an old factory building bordering the railroad tracks. She likes nothing better than spending time with friends and students experimenting with a wide variety of techniques and materials, creating an explosion of color and pattern. Then comes the hard work of figuring out how to rein it in.
Lisa teaches workshops at craft schools and for private groups around the country as well as in her studio. She is one of the original participants in the Portsmouth Holiday Arts Tour. This is the 21st year her studio will be open to the public.