Visual artisan Leisa Collins chock-full into the Mt Cook-Aoraki apple as allotment of a civic painting bout in which she is retracing her footsteps of a adventure through the South Island 30 years earlier. At that time she abandoned academic art training and the borders of the classroom, opting to apprentice her ability through capturing on canvas the adorableness of the New Zealand landscape. She acclaimed her acknowledgment to Mt Cook by giving an ad-lib watercolor assignment to the pupils of the Aoraki Mt Cook School.
“Mt Cook has consistently been one of my admired places on earth. It’s a accurate antecedent of afflatus for an artisan and it was nice to accord something aback to this admirable association at Aoraki Village. She will be abiding next January area she will authority an exhibition at the Old Mountaineer’s Café and Restaurant and will accord an art workshop.
Leisa afresh took up her paintbrush and full-time art career afresh afterwards two decades of amusing activism that took her to the four corners of the apple and gave her a actual appearance of assorted cultures and amusing inequities. She is currently creating her latest New Zealand alternation of paintings while at the aforementioned time accomplishing a abiding beck of commissioned landscapes, adolescent portraits and abode portraits. “The aboriginal alone paintings I did all those years ago were pen and watercolor abode portraits of New Zealand homes, and its still a favorite,” said Leisa, “I abnormally like painting celebrated homes and buildings. Coming aback to New Zealand this time I couldn’t get over how abounding art alarming homes there are – allocution about personality! I accept apparent homes all over the world, but there are added admirable homes and area in New Zealand than anywhere abroad on the planet!”
Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage of art with a message. Her website stresses the accent of the artisan bringing about amusing change and her Art in Action page includes her activities in this regard. Her website aswell includes an on-line gallery, featuring semi-abstract as able-bodied as astute mural and account works. She consistently posts on her Art with a Message Blog and keeps her accompany and audience adapted through her newsletter, Art in the Making.
Before accession in New Zealand Leisa completed a 7,000 mile adventure above the United States that apparent her reemergence into the art apple and captured the faces and places of America on her canvas. Entitled Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist bout the bout started in Los Angeles on September 1 and concluded in New York on October 15.
“Art is a able agency of advice and is accordingly a almighty weapon to accompany about change,” says Leisa. “Art for me is something that goes far above the walls of the studio.”
Leisa Collins Art is the aesthetic endeavor of New Zealand complete beheld artisan Leisa Collins. Leisa’s alive adage is Art with a Message and her primary focus is on application art for amusing change by announcement art in action, abnormally alive with women artists on projects apropos accouchement and art education. Leisa specializes in commissioned art works of all kinds and abnormally loves accomplishing abode portraits and landscapes. For added advice acquaintance Leisa by phone, e-mail or website.
Contact Information:
Email: leisa@leisacollins.com
Phone: 517-763-8453
Website: http://www.leisacollins.com
Blog: http://leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com
Information on commissioned art works: http://leisacollins.com/leisacollins_commissions.html
Information on abode portraits: http://leisacollins.com/house_portrait.html .
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