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Quiet Mind Art with Earth & Heart.

See Lisa Lipsett’s elemental images & learn to paint for joy and connection with the Creative by Nature Art Method. Learn more.

Lisa Lipsett’s Paintings

“To harmonize the whole is the role of art” -Wassily Kandinsky

Inspired by nature’s breathtaking yet often unseen beauty, my mixed media paintings and photo art express pattern, sound, movement, kaleidoscopic perspective, and what emerges when we feel into the living world and our hearts, and co-create.

Click here or on a painting below to see my art. Archival prints, cards and skins are available online at Decalgirl and Fine Art America. Original paintings are also available for purchase, just contact me. Shows and Open Studio days happen throughout the year. Check the Events listing to learn more.

Courses

What if you could have the confidence to paint with natural ease anywhere, anytime without fear or failure?

NEW Creative by Nature Art Method painting classes for 2016

My world burst wide open the day I closed my eyes and painted the way a tulip feels instead of the way it looks. That was nearly 20 years ago yet painting still provokes the same thrill.

Art making is our human birth right. I believe that everyone can paint so I have developed the Creative by Nature Art Method- an easy to learn yet powerful contemplative painting practice that highlights the most essential creative art tools and habits. When you take a course with me you will learn to paint with natural ease. You will improvise, play, and learn to let go as you strengthen your art muscles. If you seek to transform your art confidence the Creative by Nature Art Method will be enormously beneficial. In no time you will be painting anywhere at anytime.

Take a course today because you deserve the joy of a creative practice to call your own. Learn More

What course participants have to say

I will continue exploring this wonderful world of expression you taught me. I am very grateful.

N. Watters

I was an art virgin. Never taken an art class. Never thought I would. I'm so glad I did.

C. Mauro

Creative by Nature Art with Lisa is pure joy!

C. Smart

When I finish painting it gives me a feeling of release. I feel calm and satisfied. It is an outlet for stress, and it enables me to connect with something greater.

Environmental Studies graduate student

Even though I am a market gardener and outdoors all the time, it was totally different to be in the same environment, but with a creative focus.

H. Thoma

Lisa helped me take that leap of faith onto the page. I realized that this is a gift we all have. Forever grateful.

N. Watters

The art projects were fun, simple and before I even started to paint I already felt that whatever expression I presented it was the right one for me.

N. Watters

I am ready to get into my practice, whatever it shapes up to be! Thanks for the inspiration and for BEAUTY MUSE.

P. Pillay

The support of a schedule helped me to prioritize time to deepen my art practice, and there were many AHA moments and surprises along the way!

H. Thoma

Fears of failure and not being good enough could not gain the slightest foothold in the context of Lisa's approach. How can a painting fail when it has been created with closed eyes?

C. Mauro

This week really opened up big doors for me in understanding the much larger role art, and specifically painting, can play in my life - as a way to connect more deeply with nature, myself and others.

N. Foley Sail Stretch Create 2015

Books + Articles

Buy Beauty Muse

With over 100 easy-to-try painting activities, inspiring narrative and vibrant colour images, Beauty Muse: Painting in communion with nature is a rich creative companion. Get the tools to ignite a painting practice to call your own and watch how small daily steps lead to a more creative life.

Get inspired by fresh natural ways to approach drawing and painting that support skill building, spontaneity and in-the-moment presence. See Creative by Nature Art articles, videos and books.

About Lisa

Artist, author and teacher Lisa Lipsett is passionate about painting and is a contemplative art specialist who offers creative mentoring, artful nature connection programs and personal transformation through art. Her passion is to free people from art anxiety so they may strengthen and celebrate their creative nature. Lisa is a nature-taught painter and has a Doctorate in Transformative Learning from the University of Toronto. She lives, works and plays on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada and loves gunk holing around the Gulf Islands with her family on their sailboat Phoenix. Learn more about Lisa’s Story.