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My name is Lisa Lipsett. I am a visual artist, author & painting mentor with a passion for hands-on painting with nature.
It is my hope that the Paint with Nature blog, classes, how-to videos & books shared here will inspire you to touch joy through painting with nature and your wild heart.
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Learn to Paint with Nature
I have helped over 1000 youth and adults learn to paint with nature for joy and connection.
When you take a class with me your wild creative heart will blossom and you will feel confident to paint with natural ease anywhere, anytime. Playful hands-on painting adventures comprised of powerful sensory ways to shift into connection are coupled with the most essential skills for painting success. Soon you will have a painting practice to call your own and a fresh way to love nature through your own unique creative expression.
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Testimonials
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
Books & Articles
Beauty Muse: Painting in Communion with Nature
In this book you will discover nature-inspired tools to ignite a painting practice to call your own. 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 painting companion.
Paint with Nature Videos
This video is called Fall Lines. It’s amazing how each leaf falls in its own artful unique way. I invite you to draw along. See more videos here.
I finger paint with nature’s beauty- her patterns, colours, movements, shadows and elemental tensions. I began almost three decades ago by painting how I feel as a kind of painting journal practice, letting my hands choose the colours. Then my world burst wide open the day on an impulse I decided to paint the way a vase of tulips feels instead of the way it looks. I was so entranced by both the deep connection I felt and the beauty of the image that I continue to begin my paintings in this way with both hands in the paint with my eyes closed to feel into nature and my own heart.
I teach Paint with Nature workshops to youth & adults using powerful yet easy-to-learn techniques that use touch to connect then create. I teach in the garden, forest, by the sea and in my studio; also at retreats, schools, art camps, wilderness programs, and on the sea. I call myself a “nature-taught” painter (I made that up) and have a Doctorate in Transformative Learning from the University of Toronto with a focus on creativity and nature connection. I am president of the Salt Spring Gallery, an artist-driven fine art collective. I live, work and play on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada and love gunk holing around the Gulf Islands on my sailboat Phoenix. Learn more
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