House portrait and landscape artist Leisa Collins returned to Lansing, Michigan this week after a 3-month working summer holiday in New Zealand to experience sub-zero conditions and a temperature drop of 90 degrees.
Lansing, MI, February 01, 2010 — House portrait and landscape artist Leisa Collins returned to Lansing, Michigan this week after a 3-month working summer holiday in New Zealand to experience sub-zero conditions and a temperature drop of 90 degrees.
Born and raised in Auckland, Leisa returned to New Zealand to visit family and tour the countryside, retracing her footsteps from 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 bycapturing on canvas the beauty of the New Zealand landscape.
Leisa recently took up her paintbrush and returned to a full-time art career after two decades of social activism that took her to the four corners of the globe and gave her a firsthand view of diverse cultures and social inequities.
During the three month tour of New Zealand she completed more than 20 personalized paintings, mostly home portraits. She is currently creating her latest series of creative paintings while at the same time fulfilling more commissioned house portraits, child portraits and landscape paintings in both the USA and New Zealand. “The first personalized paintings I did all those years ago were pen and watercolor house portraits of New Zealand homes,” said Leisa. “I especially like painting historic homes and buildings.”
Leisa now combines her activist and artistic skills under the motto Art with a Message. Her website — www.leisacollins.com — stresses the importance of the artist bringing about social change and also includes an online gallery of her portrait and landscape paintings.
“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.”
Leisa Collins is a native of New Zealand now living in the USA as a visual artist. She specializes in house portraits, pet portraits, child portraits and custom landscape paintings. Find out more at www.leisacollins.com.
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