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 .
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