Painter Leisa Collins Re-Emerges into the Art World

After 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, Leisa Collins (http://www.leisacollins.com), has taken up her paintbrush afresh and alternate to her full-time art career.

Based in the USA, but all-embracing in scope, Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage of “art with a message.” Her anew appear 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. The website comprises a diffuse art commissions page which describes the different access that Leisa takes in this arena. Her website admission endure anniversary included her new Art with a Message Blog (http://leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com/) and her account email newsletter, Art in the Making.

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Leisa boarded aloft academic art training at 17, about afterwards alone a few months she abandoned the classroom, opting to apprentice her ability through capturing on canvas the adorableness of the countryside. Exploring every alcove and breach of New Zealand, she financed her adventures by affairs her plan as she went. She alternate to Auckland and set up her own flat and arcade area she captivated her aboriginal of abounding abandoned exhibitions which mainly featured her New Zealand mural works.

Drawing on her all-around insight, her newest works are generally studies of people. Expressed in semi-abstract swirls, clear-cut caliginosity and aboriginal patterns, her works back raw emotion—whether animated the ablaze on amusing abuse or communicating the ability of the animal spirit.

“Art is a able agency of communication,” states Leisa, “and is accordingly a almighty weapon to accompany about change. Interaction with humans and the ambiance is my aesthetic afflatus and stimulation. It’s about accepting above a message, an emotion, or envisioning a bigger tomorrow. Art for me is something that goes far above the flat and arcade walls.”

Her aesthetic influences ambit from impressionists Monet and Renoir, masters of expressionism van Gogh and Edvard Munch, Picasso, and the bulletin apprenticed works of Francisco de Goya, Andrew Wyeth and John Steuart Curry. She aswell draws on cultural art forms, abnormally African and Polynesian.

Leisa is currently creating new works and advancing for her Across the USA from the Eyes of an Artist bout that launches into action on Sep 1st. Meanwhile she is continuing to plan on amusing issues through her art accompanying projects and receives agency requests from assorted locations of the apple -- a claiming she enjoys immensely.