Drawing and painting has been a life-long passion for Lisa Andrews. Her formal education took a more conventional route, graduating from UCLA with a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance. While living and working in New York post graduation, she pursued her passion for art with independent study of fine traditional paintings at major museums. With the birth of her first child after moving to San Francisco, she left the corporate world to focus on raising her family and developing her artistic interests. She established a successful interior design and architectural consulting business, while simultaneously seeking more intensive training in art. She pursued classical drawing, painting and anatomy study with a number of master artists, and was invited to join a regular painting group of Academy of Art faculty. Private teaching and mentoring honed her skills in communicating artistic methods and concepts to her students. Her private commissions included narrative works in churches across the country, a process that required a creative and sophisticated interpretation of traditional texts in a more contemporary setting. When not pursuing her art, she relaxes with her husband Robert, who is a Permanent Deacon with the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Her two children are now married, and in addition to cooking, reading and taking long walks, she is thoroughly enjoying being a new grandmother.