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.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
House Portrait Artist Visits New Zealand
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 .
“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 .
House Portrait Artist Tours Gisborne, New Zealand
House account and mural artisan Leisa Collins' a lot of contempo New Zealand bout stop was the Gisborne across area she visited ancestors and tended to addition aesthetic painting spree. “I toured 11,000 km above America on a painting bout afore abiding to New Zealand several weeks ago and I accept back catholic abundantly above both the arctic and south islands. I've been in Auckland, Rotorua, Gisborne, Christchurch, Mt Cook and more, but Gisborne takes top cost if it comes to homes and area with personality!” said Leisa. “I was so afflicted I absitively to selectively advance to Gisborne across homes and the acknowledgment has been huge.” Collins just completed a pen and watercolor ablution abode account of a acreage address on Wainui Road. “It was the aboriginal time audience asked me to cover beasts in a home account painting,” she said. “It was a lot of fun.” Leisa is currently alive on two others commissioned works in the Whataupolo across of Gisborne.
Earlier on her New Zealand bout Leisa was at Mt Cook retracing her footsteps of a adventure she took through the South Island 30 years ago. At that time she abandoned academic art training and the borders of the classroom in Auckland, opting to apprentice her ability by 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. Leisa enjoys accumulation accouchement and art.
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 abounding assorted cultures and abominable amusing inequities. She is now active in both New Zealand and the USA. She is creating her latest New Zealand alternation of paintings while at the aforementioned time accomplishing 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.”
Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage 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 online 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 ted through her newsletter, Art in the Making.
“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.”
Contact Information:
Email: leisa@leisacollins.com
Website: http://www.leisacollins.com
Blog: http://www.leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com
House Portraits: http://www.leisacollins.com/house_portrait.html .
Earlier on her New Zealand bout Leisa was at Mt Cook retracing her footsteps of a adventure she took through the South Island 30 years ago. At that time she abandoned academic art training and the borders of the classroom in Auckland, opting to apprentice her ability by 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. Leisa enjoys accumulation accouchement and art.
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 abounding assorted cultures and abominable amusing inequities. She is now active in both New Zealand and the USA. She is creating her latest New Zealand alternation of paintings while at the aforementioned time accomplishing 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.”
Leisa is now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage 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 online 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 ted through her newsletter, Art in the Making.
“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.”
Contact Information:
Email: leisa@leisacollins.com
Website: http://www.leisacollins.com
Blog: http://www.leisacollinsartwithamessage.blogspot.com
House Portraits: http://www.leisacollins.com/house_portrait.html .
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