House Portrait Artist in Gisborne, New Zealand
House portrait and landscape artist Leisa Collins' most recent New Zealand tour stop was the Gisborne area where she visited family and tended to another artistic painting spree. “I've been in Auckland, Rotorua, Gisborne, Christchurch, Mt Cook and more, but Gisborne takes top prize when it comes to homes and gardens with personality!" said Leisa.
Gisborne, New Zealand, December 04, 2009 --(PR.com)-- House portrait and landscape artist Leisa Collins' most recent New Zealand tour stop was the Gisborne area where she visited family and tended to another artistic painting spree. “I toured 11,000 km across America on a painting tour before returning to New Zealand several weeks ago and I have since traveled extensively across both the north and south islands. I've been in Auckland, Rotorua, Gisborne, Christchurch, Mt Cook and more, but Gisborne takes top prize when it comes to homes and gardens with personality!” said Leisa. “I was so impressed I decided to selectively promote to Gisborne area homes and the response has been huge.” Collins just completed a pen and watercolor wash house portrait of a farm homestead on Wainui Road. “It was the first time clients asked me to include cows in a home portrait painting,” she said. “It was a lot of fun.” Leisa is currently working on two others commissioned works in the Whataupolo area of Gisborne.
Earlier on her New Zealand tour Leisa was at Mt Cook retracing her footsteps of a journey she took through the South Island 30 years ago. At that time she abandoned formal art training and the confines of the classroom in Auckland, opting to learn her craft by capturing on canvas the beauty of the New Zealand landscape. She celebrated her return to Mt Cook by giving an impromptu watercolor lesson to the pupils of the Aoraki Mt Cook School. Leisa enjoys combining children and art.
Leisa recently took up her paintbrush and full-time art career again after two decades of social activism that took her to the four corners of the globe and gave her a firsthand view many diverse cultures and shocking social inequities. She is now living in both New Zealand and the USA. She is creating her latest New Zealand series of paintings while at the same time fulfilling commissioned landscapes, child portraits and house portraits. “The first personalized paintings I did all those years ago were pen and watercolor house portraits of New Zealand homes, and its still a favorite,” said Leisa, “I especially like painting historic homes and buildings.”
Leisa is now combining her activist and artistic skills under the motto Art with a Message. Her website stresses the importance of the artist bringing about social change and her Art in Action page includes her activities in this regard. Her website also includes an online gallery, featuring semi-abstract as well as realistic landscape and portrait works. She regularly posts on her Art with a Message Blog and keeps her friends and clients ted through her newsletter, Art in the Making.
“Art is a powerful means of communication and is therefore a potent weapon to bring about change,” says Leisa. “Art for me is something that goes far beyond the walls of the studio.”
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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 tour Leisa was at Mt Cook retracing her footsteps of a journey she took through the South Island 30 years ago. At that time she abandoned formal art training and the confines of the classroom in Auckland, opting to learn her craft by capturing on canvas the beauty of the New Zealand landscape. She celebrated her return to Mt Cook by giving an impromptu watercolor lesson to the pupils of the Aoraki Mt Cook School. Leisa enjoys combining children and art.
Leisa recently took up her paintbrush and full-time art career again after two decades of social activism that took her to the four corners of the globe and gave her a firsthand view many diverse cultures and shocking social inequities. She is now living in both New Zealand and the USA. She is creating her latest New Zealand series of paintings while at the same time fulfilling commissioned landscapes, child portraits and house portraits. “The first personalized paintings I did all those years ago were pen and watercolor house portraits of New Zealand homes, and its still a favorite,” said Leisa, “I especially like painting historic homes and buildings.”
Leisa is now combining her activist and artistic skills under the motto Art with a Message. Her website stresses the importance of the artist bringing about social change and her Art in Action page includes her activities in this regard. Her website also includes an online gallery, featuring semi-abstract as well as realistic landscape and portrait works. She regularly posts on her Art with a Message Blog and keeps her friends and clients ted through her newsletter, Art in the Making.
“Art is a powerful means of communication and is therefore a potent weapon to bring about change,” says Leisa. “Art for me is something that goes far beyond the walls of the studio.”
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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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Leisa Collins Art - House Portraits & Landscape Paintings
Leisa Collins
517-763-8453
www.leisacollins.com
Leisa Collins
517-763-8453
www.leisacollins.com
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