Biography

A Bennington music major, music teacher and devoted mom through earlier stages of her life, Lisa was introduced to the joys of pottery-making in the late 1990s by her daughter Natalie, now a nationally-acclaimed ceramic artist. When Natalie moved out of her first studio, which had been constructed inside the barn attached to the Blake's home in West Chesterfield, NH, Lisa took it over. She bought a slab roller, kiln and other basic tools and set to work to find her own path to building functional, colorful forms out of clay.

Many bags of clay, gallons of glaze later, not to mention the vicissitudes of disaster and triumph no self-taught artist can escape, Lisa has evolved a line of plates, bowls, platters, and unique serving dishes in bright turquoise, blue and yellow/sepia patterns that please admirers and customers wherever she exhibits. She currently sells her work at galleries such as Country Artisans in Keene, Sharon Arts Center in Peterborough, The Pinch in Northampton, and in at least 18 craft shows between New England and southern Florida.