Golden Thanka Painting

Lisa Rasmussen is an Eco Artist, Painter, Photographer, Art Advocate, and Educator I am an award winning Transformative Artist and Educator. My art is a recorded event of my deep interest in mysticism and the natural world, as well as a passageway into my own mythical inversion of reality. I see my paintings as portals; visual archives that tap into my unconscious. Many of my paintings are inspired by my study of ancient cultures and travel to sacred sites around the globe where animistic worldviews encompassed a belief in a magical Other World. Since 2003 I have been teaching at-risk youth the power of ART. The program that I developed bridges the gap between art as a transformative tool and art as a form of cultural expression. In many of my programs my students/artists have experienced the invaluable joy of self-expression and the all-important process of being seen in their fuller humanity." I believe that art is intrinsic to the nurturance of the human spirit and that artists' true essence is transformative. In all my work I seek to honor that state of the soul when the artist experiences the ultimate liberation, which is the personal act of creation itself.