A friend introduced Lisa to leadlighting when she was nineteen and she has been passionate about it ever since. Apart from completing a brief leadlighting course Lisa is self-taught.

What started out as a hobby is now her full time job. Lisa works on commission and also spends time decorating her own home. At the moment she is working on her third house — or 'cathedrals' as the real estate agents have called them. Lisa believes that the lead light work in her last two houses improved the value of the property. Lisa says another advantage of the lead light is it's safer against burglary than normal glass doors and windows because leadlight is harder to break through than a plain sheet of glass.

On walking through Lisa's home, it impossible to ignore her leadlights. From kitchen tiles and windows to lamps and vases nothing is left untouched. Lisa's favourite piece, at the moment (her last piece is always her favourite piece) is a window at the front of her house. The design is of a witch on a broomstick, flying through a cobweb.

Over the years Lisa has had some interesting requests for her work such as a nude boy weeing, which was for a client's toilet door. At first she thought this disgusting but in the end she was happy with the job she'd done. Lisa also completed a fairy themed wall that consisted of six fixed panels measuring two metres high and thirteen metres wide.

Lisa says her kind of leadlighting is different to the type you see in churches and cathedrals. The stained glass in churches was created using thicker lead and bigger pieces of glass which were individually fired and hand painted. Lisa's images are more abstract and although it is a traditional craft, she uses modernised methods.