Aliisa Hyslop was born in 1957 of Finnish and Scottish parents. She studied at Portsmouth College of Art, gaining a B.A. Hons in Fine Art in 1981.

Aliisa Hyslop paintings are figurative conveying expressions of joy and melancholy. Aliisa paintings reflect her own experiences and imagination. She describes the paintings as a world somewhere “between reality and imagination”.

Figures in Aliisa Hyslop paintings are always large but Aliisa does not see them as fat. “I draw and paint intuitively, and I like large shapes and curves. I think perhaps it is because these images are about the soul, which is immense and boundless.”