About the Artist and her Floor Cloths

Since 1992 Lisa Curry Mair has created floorcloths, fireboards, table runners and other painted canvas items for homes throughout the United States and Canada.

This is a 5-minute movie created by Vermont Public TV, showing Lisa at work in her studio and how her floorcloths are made.

From a degree in Mathematics, to children’s book illustration, to research in historical aspects of early American life, all paths have led to a career in designing, crafting and painting functional canvas surfaces with a strong geometric element reminiscent of a bygone era.

All work is executed in the carriage-house wing of an 18th century farmhouse at the base of Ascutney Mountain in the Connecticut River Valley town of Weathersfield, Vermont. The studio, shop and showrooms are open by chance or appointment.

Take a look at the 21-page Canvasworks Portfolio complete with beautiful photos, details about pricing and ordering information. Click here to download the portfolio.

Chosen by Early American Homes Magazine for its Directory of Traditional Crafts.

 

Featured in Country Living, Old House Interiors, Early American Life, Renovation Style, Antiques Journal Magazines.

 

Granted tenure for the Weston Craft Show, a premiere, strictly-juried showcase of Vermont crafts.

 

Featured in The Boston Globe Magazine’s Hot Line’s section, July 1995.

 

Numerous museum commissions for reproduction floorcloths have been procured by Canvasworks including Mystic Seaport Museum, Hanover Tavern, Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, Museum of the City of New York, Schuyler Mansion Estate.