Lisa Takahashi
Lisa Takahashi is a printmaker based in Bristol, England. Born in 1981 to a Japanese mother and an English father Takahashi grew up in North London before studying Fine Art at Bath Spa University College and Middlesex University. Subsequent to her studies she worked as assistant to artists Stephen Walter and Hugo Grenville. She then opened a studio in London where she worked both as painter in oils and watercolour, before moving her studio to Bristol where she concentrates on printmaking, more specifically on linocut prints.
Takashashi references the Grosvenor School in her linocuts (Cyril Power, Sybil Andrews; Lill Tschudi, see Artists). She pares down detail to find essential shapes, and uses geometry to emphasise form. She concentrates often on movement and sport, specifically, in many of her prints, on cycling where she finds a natural geometry both in the shapes of the individual cyclists and in the pattern produced by the group.
