Cloister of the Heart : Featured Artist and Blogger : Priti Lisa

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Featured Artist and Blogger : Priti Lisa

http://www.pritistudio.com

Every day I find such brilliance, beauty and

creativity in blogland and I always wish

that I could share it with someone

right now!

I often forward the links to friends and family,

but at times I think they feel so overwhelmed

by my enthusiastic sharings that they do not

always open those links!

Somewhere on someone's blog

I found the idea to do a featured artist

and blogger feature right here -

and I created the prettiest badge

for you to display

the original image is from Vintage Made for You blogspot

My first artist and blogger that I am sharing with you

is PritiLisa of Pritistudio (www.pritistudio.com)

I have acquired quite a few of her pieces over the past few years

Lisa made this exquisite journal for me

Reserved Listing-Handmade Book- Art Journal

and I bought this tiny altered prayer book

RESERVED-------Altered Vintage Pocket/Prayer/Journal?Book

and this is my absolute favourite

and this one

Lisa blogs from the heart.

She shares her vulnerabilities and her strengths.

Just by reading her blog, you get to know her

and she becomes a part of your world.

Her art ranges from hand made tiles

and mixed media prayer boxes and shrines

Holy Mary Rosary Shrine and Prayer Altar www.etsy.com/shop/pritistudio

to very unique art journals

beautiful original acrylic paintings

Mary is one of her favourite subject matters

as is Frida

If you do not know PritiLisa, then please go
to www.pritistudio.com and
see for yourself.

and she has a beautiful shop on Etsy.com
at www.etsy.com/shop/pritistudio

Keep on writing and creating Lisa
and we will keep on visiting!!

love and blessings
Hettienne

p.s. remember to grab the pretty badge for your blog!

6 comments:

Annie JeffriesMarch 4, 2014 at 5:46 PM
You could not have chosen a better inaugural featured artist. Priti-Lisa is so filled with inspiration and beauty. It radiates from the inside and outward through her hands.
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Priti LisaMarch 4, 2014 at 5:46 PM
What an honor Hettienne, I am speechless!!!
I HAD to share it to facebook and claim my 15 minutes of fame...
Oh my goodness, you made me sound so special
and loved...thank YOU ever-so-much...♥ ♥ ♥
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GlorV1March 4, 2014 at 7:31 PM
I agree. Lisa is one of the best. I too have a few of her handmade beauties, as well as a wonderful stepping stool she made. She is awesome and shines with that smile of hers. Congrats Lisa.:) ::hugs::
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Lisa Oceandreamer SwifkaMarch 4, 2014 at 7:41 PM
Lisa and I have connected recently and it's been a GREAT joy getting to know her. Her art is deep and soulful and full of grace. We are in a journal round robin thus I will have some of her art in my journal - now that's joy! You chose wisely!
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NonnieMarch 5, 2014 at 1:41 AM
Lisa does create exquisite and heart-felt art. I have one of her Marys that graces my kitchen.
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J CMarch 8, 2014 at 5:45 PM
I'm glad you featured Ms. Priti. She is an awesome artist, and her faith and her heart shows in all of her work. Kudos to both of you.
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My life as a Pilgrim to sacred places

Pilgrimage and sacred ritual is my foremost spiritual practise. Raised Dutch Reformed Protestant, the rich lustre of sacred and holy places offered a well of inspiration for my parched soul. My travels have taken me to many different religions, cultures and traditions. You will see on the internet that I have written on many aspects of the spiritual journey. Until I came into contact with the mystical side of Christianity. My first ritual I attended was the festival of Archangel Michael in Mont Sant'Angelo in Italy, then visiting Padre Pio. Then followed walking the pilgrimage of Bridgid, the sacred well and labyrinth in Kildare, Ireland. And that is when my art appeared in the form of paintings. Ritual grounded in the knowing of the unconscious, awakens us from the dream of habitual seeing and thinking. The conscious mind lacks the ability or maybe the neural pathway to communicate the new-found wisdom intellectually, and thus the expression through art steps in. Well, that is only my experience and understanding, of course. But I had not been an artist till I participated in sacred ritual.

My stay at Lourdes and participating in the rituals daily, turned me into a full time artist.

When one participates in a ritual (probably any ritual, but when you regard it as sacred, you add a certain 'light' to it) you are transported into a different time and space : colors are different; the light is different; everything has meaning and the ordinary become extra-ordinary. My art novena for Lourdes in particular, highlights my statement that our lives are the altar to the Divine and I strive to capture that numinosity of the sacred ritual in my photographs and altars. I only started creating sacred altars on my return from Lourdes. These small shadowboxes are vignettes, a moment in time in the life of ordinary human beings, lifted out of the mundane into the numinous, merely by seeing life as sacred.

Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories." ~Meinrad Craighead

Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. ~Rumi

I am the mother of fair love and of respect and of knowledge and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth; in me is all hope of life and of virtue - Ecclesiasticus 24:24.

OPEN FLOWER

Near your breastbone there is an
Open Flower.
Drink the honey that is all around that flower.
Waves are coming in:
There is so much magnificence near the ocean!
Listen: Sound of big seashells!
Sound of bells!
Kabir says: Friend, listen this is what I have to say:
The guest I love is inside me!
~Kabir

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