Home Portrait Artist and activist Leisa Collins and a aggregation of 5 adolescence from the Tapuihikitia Marae, put the finishing touches on a painting they accordingly created for the Marae (meeting abode and apple centermost of a Maori community). The appellation of the painting, “Te Aroha” (love), mirrors the name applique aloft the access to the marae affair house. The painting includes a appearance of the Marae accumulated with bouncing Maori designs fatigued and corrective by the adolescence team. It’s purpose is to back the amount of the marae aural the Maori association and the accumulation role it plays.
A built-in New Zealander, 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 now accumulation her activist and aesthetic abilities beneath the adage of Art with a Message and frequently gives chargeless art acquaint to accouchement to animate them to added advance their aesthetic abilities.
Prior to accession in New Zealand a few weeks ago Leisa completed a 11,000 kilometer adventure above the USA to advance accouchement and art education. Two weeks ago she gave an ad-lib chargeless art assignment to the pupils of the Mt Cook-Aoraki School, a area she chock-full into as allotment of a civic painting bout to amend 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 in Auckland, opting to apprentice her ability through capturing on canvas the adorableness of the New Zealand landscape
Leisa is currently blockage with ancestors in Gisborne area she is painting a amount of commissioned abode portraits of bounded Gisborne homes while aswell creating a alternation of New Zealand mural paintings and adolescent portraits.
Her website (http://www.leisacollins.com) stresses the accent of the artisan bringing about amusing change and her Art in Action page includes her activities in this regard. She consistently posts on her Art with a Message Blog and keeps her accompany and audience adapted through her newsletter, Art in the Making. She is currently on bout in New Zealand.
“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:
Cell Phone: 027 2833933
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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