Bio
I’m a Sydney based emerging artist with a lineage. My Nanna is a professional artist, my mum is a professional costumier, my childhood was spent ‘waiting for the light to change’ so that my dad could click the shutter on his 8 by 10 camera. After moving to Melbourne, I studied Art at the tertiary level and was self-employed as a digital illustrator. Then moved back to Sydney and began to really love my job teaching preschoolers in the art room. I really embodied the frustrated artist who practices art vicariously.
Now I am studying again, focusing on digital media - a decision made on the basis that I could draw, paint, sculpt and design digitally and be creative across all those forms of the visual arts.
Introducing Lisswah
A Lifetime of Creation
Like many artists, my professional background as a digital illustrator took a backseat for the financially stable teaching profession. Once I accepted this with grace, I began to love the job for what it really is and enjoy the children for their light and their love. The job teaches me patience, kindness and acceptance. To see the small things for what they really are; the reflection of light is a rainbow unicorn, the bumps on a leaf are a moth’s eggs, Metaphor that one thing is another, is seeing what you want to see, seeing the world through a prism of potential. That’s what children teach me about art. They draw a circle and proudly proclaim how they drew a horse. Metaphor that one thing is another, is seeing what you want to see. We all have our own perspectives, but as adults the potential in seeing the world through a prism of lightness gets lost and seeing things that are not there may seem crazy, not positive and light filled, full of life’s potential. I use this knowledge to paint what I want to see, to sculpt what I want to hold, to create from a place of the world’s potential.