Lisa Ferrante

Mixed Media Artist

My name is Lisa Ferrante.  I am a self-taught mixed media artist, a wife, and a mother who is blessed with a beautiful supportive family.  I have always wanted to express myself in a creative way, but could not find the medium at which I would both excel and which would give me the most satisfaction.  Once I discovered mixed media, years of feelings about my life literally began to flow from hands and from my heart.

Initially I found myself expressing long suppressed feelings about my mother who died when I was 5 years old.  Intimately woven in are my passionate feelings about my own two baby girls, and how mothering them finally allowed me to work through the pain of the absence of my own mom while celebrating every moment of their young lives.

I can get lost in a painting for hours, and am most often completely surprised at the final product.  I am never certain where the journey of any one piece will take me.  Sometimes a word will inspire an entire work; other times it is only when the piece is complete that it is clear what it is meant to say.  All are about love, maternal love, romantic love, self-love and empowerment.  These themes are a reflection of me; they are me exposed; each purges another powerful emotion, another profound realization.  Each piece represents another step in my own evolution as a woman.  As the themes have evolved from the worship of a goddess mother I never knew to my love for my girls, the loves of soul sisters and romantic love for my husband I have learned to love and accept me for the first time in my life.