Artist Statement
Why is bleeding of color in water exquisitely magical? Just as our creative spirit flows like a river, it seems nature intended art's act as existential mimicry all along. Like consciousness ebbing into deep sleep, composition bends within light and rests in its own delicate balance of darkness. Side-by-side, images, colors, and elements become one connected body revealing a single breath, a tick-tock moment in newfound existence, infinite with purpose. I call it Connected Collage. Through buoyancy of voice, art sings when seen, felt within. As an artist, reflective, dare I yield such arduous humility in practice, in preach? Yes.
Biography
A Carolina artist, author, and illustrator, Lisa’s style of “Connected Collage” artworks are categorized as hand-built assembled watercolor and mixed media. Her artistry merges time and nature in subjective spherical symmetry. She exploits the dynamism of universal connectedness using a splash-factor bath of randomized color. Each color-board is unique in its evolution, relying on interactive properties of water, paint, temperature, and moving air. Ultimately, each painting is pressed under heavy glass adhering all layers of cut-torn paper into its final artwork form. She earned an MFA in writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA), intersecting her creative aspirations with exceptional organizations in FL and SC. All Carolina Folktales, her author-illustrated picture books deliver young and ambitious readers wild, exhilarating adventures: Little Orange Honey Hood and Three Wild Pigs (USC Press, SC) and Haskell & Greta (Quantum 8 Press, LLC). Her artistry has been afforded platforms for teaching workshops and exhibition in galleries, fairs, festivals, literary & art events, shops, and shows. Countess Couture Art of the Carolinas of Quantum 8 Press, LLC, is her studio art and publishing company. She lives near the coastal Carolinas border with her fun-loving husband enjoying a sun-filled landscape threading yesterday, today, and tomorrow together.
Organizational Affiliations
Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt School Publishers, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) of the Carolinas, Pat Conroy Literary Center (PCLC), USC Press/Young Palmetto Books, Orlando & Columbia Writers Groups, Seacoast Artist Guild & Writers Group, Scholastic’s Tangerine Press, MACK Artists Guild, Fairfield County Arts Council, Trenholm Artist Guild, and NAWA SC & NY
Workshops, Readings, Events, & Exhibits
PCLC’s Camp Conroy Build-A-Book Summer Camp, Flagler College, Richland Library, Bluffton’s Book Festival, Books on Main, Geiger Elementary, Beaufort Middle-Artist in Residence, Barclay School, Blythewood Middle, Spartanburg School District 7, John de la Howe SC Governor's School, Hilton Crown Shop, Chapin Fall Art Festival, Cricket Festival of NC, Arts on the Ridge, Flights of Fantasy-Mount Dora, The Vendue Art Hotel-Charleston, Over the Top Gallery, Jewelry by Wendy Gallery, Seacoast Artist Gallery, and Aiken Center for the Arts