Hand designed & carved lettering for Memorials, Gardens & Home Art created by Lisi Ashbridge itswritteninstone@gmail.com 
Lisi has been invited to exhibit several pieces of artwork at the Fresh Air Sculpture exhibition in Gloucestershire in July. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, the decision has been made to postpone this exhibition until June 2021.
The national magazine, Wiltshire Life has selected Lisi as their feature artist for a three-page spread in their March 2021 issue. March includes National Women's Day and this article also addresses a female artist working in a traditionally male-dominated world. For the full article please click here.
The annual art exhibition and Christmas celebrations by Brewin Dolphin, one of the largest British investment management and financial planning firms, were cancelled due to covid regulations. Lisi normally organises, curates and exhibits at this highly selective show in Marlborough.
In September 2020 Lisi was invited to exhibit at the very successful exhibition by the Friends of the Garden at West Leaze. In 1969 the same property was one of the first private gardens in the country to be used for showing contemporary sculpture. That exhibition was organised by sculptor Roger Leigh and his wife Pat. It featured 18 sculptors many of them with reputations that survive to this day. They included Hubert Dalwood, Denis Mitchell, Henry Moore, William Pye and Austin Wright. The Wiltshire archives hold many of the papers about this exhibition and visitors to the exhibition will be able to get an insight into that event. Work by several of the 1969 artists will also be on show.
The Lettering Arts Trust invited Lisi to exhibit work at the 'On a Knife Edge - Nature in Peril' exhibition in Suffolk. Unfortunately, this exhibition had to be postponed until 9 July - 7 November 2021. Lisi chose to represent the cuckoo and chose an abstract for a poem by Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). To read the full poem click on Matthew Arnold's link.
In May 2020 Lisi was proposed and elected as a Master Carver at the oldest association of wood and stone carvers in the UK, the Master Carvers' Association (MCA).
Lisi has been interviewed for an article at 'It's Nice That' on her view of modern typography and the role of letter carving in the modern world. for the full article please click the link.
Lisi showed several new works at Rachel Bebb's Garden Gallery near Stockbridge. Due to covid restrictions, the gallery owner decided to keep the exhibition open for longer allowing visitors to enjoy the artworks in these stunning settings throughout the whole summer.
In February 2020, Lisi was the only successful applicant to be accepted by the Lettering Arts Trust, founders of the Memorial by Artists. The Lettering Arts Trust's primary objective is to sustain the craft of letter carving on stone by raising awareness for this precious and now endangered skill through exhibitions, talks and workshops. Memorials by Artists will guide you to an artist who will create a personal work of art to celebrate the life of someone you've lost.
Lisi was invited to show her work and demonstrate her workings at Plank's Christmas show in Wiltshire. It was a very busy and productive day.
This year again Lisi was involved organising, curating and exhibiting at the Bewin Dolphin wealth Management Christmas Art Exhibition 2019, Marlborough Town Hall.Unfortunately it had to be cancelled at the last minute due to the space being required for the national Brexit referendum.
Lisi will take part as an artist at Marlborough Open Studios in July 2019. Please check out the website and her online listing.
I will be opening my studio 26 at Chalkhill Cottage, 30 The Street, All Cannings, Wiltshire, SN10 3PA
The studio will be open July 6/7 and July 20/21 ; 11am-5pm
Come and visit my working studio: you can see the tools of the trade, working drawings, browse through inspiration books and watch demonstrations on this old British craft while enjoying refreshments in a stunning Cottage garden
http://www.marlboroughopenstudios.co.uk/exhibiting-artists/lisi-ashbridge
I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, which is the Royal Warrant Holder's Association charity, supporting British Craft.
I was honoured to have been invited to celebrate the event and to present my work at the Royal Warrant Holder's Annual luncheon at the Park Lane Hilton in London.
Lisi’s work is being exhibited at the 'Garden Gallery' in Hamshire -25th aniversary cellebration. Contemporary sculpture for garden and interior. Private View 1st of June, and runs until the 7th July, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 11-5.
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