Lisa Mary Stevens
LISA MARY STEVENS is American-Irish, residing in the U.K. since 1998. She studied art and photography at California Institute of the Arts where she received a full a scholarship for the four years of her BFA degree. After living and working in New York City and Paris as a creative director, she came to London to do an MA in Documentary Film at Goldsmiths University. For the past twenty years she has written, directed and produced feature documentary films for cinema and TV documentaries for broadcast and streaming. Lisa resides in the Dedham Vale, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (ANOB) on a farm, near Manningtree in Essex.
Artist Statement
After leaving art school, and through out my careers, I never stopped taking pictures. Photography was a way to keep in touch with my own vision. And as technology evolved so did my way of interpreting what I photographed. Layering photos through the photomontage process brings a depth to the storytelling of each image. I grew up drawing and painting things that were inside my head, not in front of my eyes. With photography, I can take pictures of things in front of my eyes and turn them into something that's inside my head. I am now experimenting with mixed-media to bring singularity and dimensionality to my images.