Passion, inspiration, and the beauty of God’s creation, captured Lisa’s imagination for drawing at an early age. With the same enthusiasm, Lisa pursued the study of art as a major, attending McKinley High School in Washington DC. She went on to study in a premedical curriculum for two years at Carnegie-Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, and in 1986, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, drawing, painting and commercial design, from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York. Lisa worked as an intern in scientific illustration at the George Washington University Department of Audio-Visual Communication in Washington DC. She further advanced through graduate studies and internships obtaining a Master of Art as Applied to Medicine in Medical and Biological Illustration at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1989. During this time, Lisa gained research skills and exposure to the use of art, photography and video production as applied to the medical-legal field. Working with respected physicians in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery, she gained valuable skills in research, anatomical dissection, drawing the superficial and anatomical structure of human features, in macro-photography and documentation of research results. She also worked as an intern in medical illustration, under the Medical Art Department at Frank L. Branson Law in Dallas Texas.

Lisa creates with mediums such as pastel, oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, pencil, pen & ink, charcoal, sculpture, printmaking, airbrush, and jewelry-making. She is also commissioned for portraits. She has depicted subjects of African-American and African heritage. Lisa’s cultural inspiration evolved from travels throughout Kenya East Africa, Ghana West Africa and the Caribbean. She has taught in charter schools and inner city programs, like Job Corps Training Centers of America for many years, providing art instruction, graphic design, and recreational field trips to explore the DC metro arena of arts communities. In publishing, she has produced technical, book and commercial illustration, advertising design, web design, motion graphics, animation, multimedia production and photography. Lisa has sought opportunities to add creative and or marketable contributions to her client goals and objectives.

LMGDesignHorizons online was designed as a platform of expression for the viewer to broaden creative horizons. As creation itself was formed to enlighten and color in the lines of life's experiences, the collection of work displayed seeks to share and reflect on a journey through life’s discoveries using, form, light and color.