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Lise Winne expresses herself in several artistic
disciplines: music, painting, sculpture, pottery, and textiles. She
received a Bachelors Degree in Studio Art from Skidmore College (where
she received an art scholarship) and a masters degree from Saint Rose in
Art Education.
Her art pieces are primarily shown in juried exhibits at museums, art
centers and art galleries; she has also exhibited in solo shows which
usually express a theme and has won several awards from museum and art
center fine craft exhibits. Her "bread and butter" items include
greeting cards, a line of giclee prints, utilitarian pottery (bowls,
vases, jars, etc.) and works in cloth (pillows, purses, small quilted
items). These items can be found at BK Studio, a gallery in Little
Falls, NY which carries her art pottery; Westside Gallery on Beekman
Street in Saratoga that carries her drawings and giclee prints; and at
the LARAC Carriage House Gift Shop, where you can find her CDs and
greeting cards. Lise is one of the curators at the Fulton
Street Gallery in Troy, NY and exhibits in their member show.
Other shops are listed on her website.
Her CDs include “Christmastime” (1996, sold out), an album of Christmas
standards; “Come to Me In Dreams” (1998), an album of originals, New Age
and folk pieces; “Wing’d With Hopes, New Interpretations of Renaissance
Songs” with The Spirites Consort (2001), an album of instrumentals and
songs from Renaissance composers Dowland, Campion, Ford and Newsidler,
performed with modern instruments and an innovative approach; and “The
Goldenrod” (2004), an album of all originals, for which she received a
grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts. She is a member of
two bands: Saratoga Faire (Celtic, folk) and The Spirites Consort
(classical/folk crossover). She is currently working on a CD with
the Saratoga Faire group.
Her music venues include everything from Irish/Celtic festivals to
classical concert halls and everything in-between: museums, art centers,
libraries, coffeehouses, house concerts, arts and craft fairs, folk
festivals, Renaissance faires, a dance festival and even some pubs!
She started out as a solo act with a wide assortment of genres before
launching into innovative cross-over music with a band. Lise
states, "I tend to work on music in a similar way as my visual art:
I work on a theme, which eventually culminates, after many years and
constant tinkering, on a recording that I feel can be a contribution to
the catalogue of music and that can have some longevity." After
pursuing the “crossover” dream for almost a decade, she began trying out
a new sound with a more Celtic and traditional influence after meeting
Jim Lestrange (hammered dulcimer) and Frank Orsini (violin, Glens Falls
resident), resulting in the band, Saratoga Faire.
On the educational front, Lise has taught art and served as the art
director of a summer camp. For more information, visit these
web sites:
www.LiseWinne.com and
www.cdbaby.com/all/lilac
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When drawing or painting, Lise uses a lot of preliminary drawings.
She likes detail and repetition in her work, and creating borders or
architectural elements is one of her trademarks. This means
measuring everything out very carefully. When she is ready to
create the final piece, she takes her preliminary drawings and often
adds new ideas that help complete the concept.
Her songwriting follows a similar format. She files bits of
poetry, lyrics, and musical phrases. The musical phrases are
recorded into a cassette recorder. Then when she is ready to write
a definitive piece, she places her files and her cassettes along with
some art reproductions on a big round table. The reproductions,
she says, "inspire me to be more visual in my lyric writing". It
takes two weeks to a month of full time working to write lyrics for a
melody.
Lise's pottery is all wheel-thrown and created in either porcelain or
stoneware. She enjoys making tall pieces, which are made by throwing a
series of identical cylinders and then joining them. Once they are
joined, a coil is attached and a lip is thrown. She says, "Tall pieces
are a challenge because they can torque during the turning process.
They also can dry unevenly, fire unevenly and have walls that are
inconsistent, all contributing to slumping during the firing process.
Porcelain is even more challenging because it has a consistency like
cream cheese and is more likely to have the aforementioned
problems. I dry, fire, and cool pieces very slowly to mitigate these
problems." When making a pot with relief sculpture, she applies it as
the pot is drying and keeps it just wet enough to apply clay. Pottery
with drawn figures is often multi-fired. Most firings, with the
exception of a bisque, are a five-day affair. So, one piece can
sometimes take several weeks or more. |
