Alisa Kennedy was born in London in 1952. She studied at the Byam Shaw School of Printing and Painting where she received the print making prize in 1976. She is married to famed artist Christopher Penny and they both live and work in Suffolk where they have established a print studio. Alisa exhibits regularly at the New Ashgate Gallery-Surrey, the Century Gallery Henley on Thames, and the Medici Gallery in London.