Meet the artist - Lisa Banks
This May and June you can enjoy and purchase the work of artist Lisa Banks. The exhibition showcases her paintings in a range of art media, and can be found in the gallery of the visitor centre at WWT Welney.
Our gallery hosts the work of artist Lisa Banks throughout May & June, treat yourself to a work of art to take home.
Sunday 5 May, 2-4pm - Meet Lisa herself on her gallery's opening weekend.
Lisa Banks is based in Cambridgeshire. Curator of the Women’s art exhibition at Wisbech art gallery in Cambridgeshire 2024. Lisa has been practicing art since training as a painter at St Martins School of Art, London in 1986. A finalist in the Wing Art Award 2021 and the Doncaster art fair 2021 Lisa has had many solo shows around the UK.
Lisa's art in her own words:
She works in a variety of arts media and explores art making processes using intuitive mark making both figurative and abstract.
She uses symbols to explore questions about environment, place, and identity. Eco-cultural identity is an old concept, the deer, lapwing and pheasant appear in ancient mythology. They are portrayed in a contemporary setting. Sometimes appearing as skulls or in surreal reflections like reminders of their power and importance both past and present.
Humans appear as sometimes half animal and half human. These suggests a narrative of fragmented or changing identity. Other figures are represented as listening, aware and thoughtful.
