Lisa D. Watson (LDW) is a Georgia-based artist and gardener whose environmental concerns are expressed in each project. Her assemblage pieces contain 90% reclaimed material such as paper products, metal, industrial wood, produce netting and more. She has used recycled objects as her medium for over 25 years and continually works towards a fully sustainable practice.
Lisa seeks balance between urbanization and conservation in her artwork and landscape design. Her company, Plan It Green Design, LLC consults homeowners with native, drought tolerant, and pollinator friendly landscapes.
Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo exhibitions: Most recently, Avant Gardener (toured for 9 months) Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA; The Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head, SC; The Averitt Center for the Arts & IAB Gallery at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. Also, Interurban, Brassworks, Montclair, NJ; Right to Vote, Pop-Up, Los Angeles, CA; Deer Humans, The Studios of Key West, FL; Cemento Armato, Florence County Museum, SC and Avanguardia, Telfair Museum's Jepson Center, Savannah, GA. Subsequently, both The Jepson Center and The Coastal Discovery Museum purchased artworks, Convergence and Pitfalls in Potholes, for their permanent collections.
In 2016, Watson debuted her first curatorial project, Span The Gap, an art in action exhibition including 25 local Savannah artists to draw community attention to Savannah's iconic bridge. She has collaborated with Sulfur Studios to co-curate RE::CLAIMED and Lyric exhibitions.
Articles Articles about LDW have been published in Locallife Magazine, Savannah Magazine, Longleaf Leader, The Savannah Morning News, Wall Street International Magazine, Paprika Southern Magazine, Voices of Nature, Voyage ATL, Connect Savannah and Forbes.com.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio and a Certificate of Interior Design from LTU in Chatsworth, California.
LDW works out of her Savannah studio and lives with her husband, Don along with two rescued cats and a Shih Tzu.
Photo by Thierry Joubert