WHO I AM AND WHAT I DO

LISA MARTEN

Abstract Expressionist Artist 

I am a full time Artist, Live Painter, Performance Artist and Producer, Art Business

Owner, and Licensed Arts Pastor who travels locally and globally connecting

cross-culturally through creativity.

 

what i do

+ abstract expressionist concepts in mixed media paintings

+ commissioned art

+ live performance painting 

+ interactive art engagements with groups 

+ private abstract expressionist sessions

+ mural painting 

+ world travels to build cross-cultural art communities

revelatorART

This is my full-time art business. With 23+ years of experience, I create paintings and artwork to sell. I incorporate abstract expressionist concepts within mixed media paintings. This includes studio and commissioned work, live painting, and mural work. I do public art exhibits and shows (solo, multi-artist, themed, juried). I do one on one abstract expressionist sessions and private and public interactive art engagements for small groups. 

Live Painting

I paint live as a visual experience for audiences at art events, concerts, private events, and church services. Adding the element of live painting to an event can create an added visual that becomes memorable for the viewer. The paintings I create live are for sale. I enjoy collaborating live with other artists, musicians, and speakers at these events. 

Email me if interested in booking me for a live painting performance. 

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Traveling Art Minister

I am a licensed Arts Pastor I travel around the world connecting cross-culturally through creativity. I have found that art is a language that we all speak and it's a great way to enter the conversation human to human to build community. I partner with people through relationship who are already connecting in their communities. I utilize creativity as a way of enhancing what they are already doing. I do this through immersing myself in their culture and coming alongside them through things like live painting, small group art activities, collaborative art projects, mural work, and creative conversation to get to know people and allow for creative expression.

To learn more: www.revelatorart.wixsite.com/travelingartminister

Trips include: Ecuador, Scotland, Lithuania, Thailand, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, England, Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, Pacific Northwest

Overseas Artist in Residencies include: Scotland, Hawai

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Marten Evergreen

I am a co-founder, along with Artist Lukas Evergreen, of a performance art company that incorporates choreographed dance, live painting, music, and story into avant-garde live performances produced for art events and private events. 

To view a performance:

"Integration" performed live for National Alliance on Mental Health at Boise State University. Boise, Idaho: https://www.facebook.com/709985651/videos/10155500474855652/

To view more past performances and photos and keep up to date on new performances, Marten Evergreen can be found on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/MartenEvergreen

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Psalm & Marten

I perform live painting to the live music of Singer-Songwriter Naomi Psalm. Together we collaborate to create a unique performance experience for live venues and private events. 

To listen to Naomi Psalm's music:

www.reverbnation.com/naomipsalm

 

VineArts Boise

I served as an Arts Pastor (mentoring/ministering) for 15 years to artists of all ages, skill levels, backgrounds, to encourage creativity within community through a local church arts program. This included coordinating/installing/curating a gallery, co-facilitating small group book studies and collaborative art activities, monitoring at community based open studio sessions, live painting during large congregational services, collaborative work on large scale backdrops, and co-planning national arts conferences. 

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Ke Aha Maui

I was the Artist in Residence for a year with a local island church. It included encouraging creativity amongst all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds within community, live painting during congregational services, and co-facilitating small group collaborative art projects. 

 

Glasgow Central Vineyard

I was the Artist in Residence for a year with a local inner city church in Scotland through art and pastoral care. It included painting murals, co-producing art exhibits and collaborative city outreach programs, and fostering relationship with artists. 

Reflect Art Conferences 

I served as part of the planning team for 7 years with the non-profit 3rd Tribe for bi-annual national art conferences (originally named Creative Church Conference) that aim to gather artists and ministers together to focus on the conversation of creativity as ministry in and out of the church through interactive collaboration with artists, speakers, and performers from around the world. 

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Bellevue Community Services

My time working in the counseling profession gave me valuable experience learning to listen and create safe space for people to process and work through conflict within their lives. I was a Registered Counselor with the State of Washington and interned at a therapist agency in the Seattle area for 3 years with a specified program counseling children and youth that committed arson. This included profiling, outcomes research, and supervised individual, group, and family counseling sessions utilizing art therapy techniques and behavioral modification therapies.

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Education

Northwest University, Kirkland, WA - BA Psychology, 1995

Northwest University, Kirkland, WA - BA Youth Ministry (Adolescent Pastoral Care), 1992

Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA - 1 year as an Art Major, 1988

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Skills

Painting, Performing, Producing, Pastoral Care, Collaborating, Mentoring

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Licenses

Arts Pastor: Ordained and Licensed Minister with AMM (current up to date)

Registered Counselor: State of Washington, USA (expired)

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Accomplishments: Art Shows and Performances

Published Illustration: Formation Generation by Robert Michael Kurz, 2008

VAC, Garden City, ID 2009

Woman of Steel Gallery, Garden City, ID 2010-2012

Art in the Bar, Knitting Factory, Boise, ID 2011-2015

RAW Artists Semi-Finalist, Boise, ID 2012

Creative Church and REFLECT Conferences, Boise, ID 2012-2018

Meridian Art Festival, Meridian, ID 2013

Stanton Healthcare Fundraiser, Boise, ID 2013

NAMI Fundraiser, Boise, ID 2015

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why & how i do what i do: creative process

 

Creativity is like a conversation. There are conversations going on all the time. Conversations with the artist and the work, with the artist and the Divine, with the artist and nature, with the artist and humankind, with the artist and self. Creativity allows me to come alongside others and enter into the conversations that are already happening. I love listening to conversations. If I'm invited into the conversations this brings about collaboration. Collaboration is an invitation to the sharing of ideas. It's able to get past the walls of cultural differences, age, race, gender, religion, politics, economic standing, education, distance, even time. It’s a huge part of building relationship. I believe humankind is a relational people. We need each other. I have found that no matter what culture we come from, art is a diverse language that can be a great way to enter the conversation human to human to build community. It transcends language barriers. Learning to communicate in this way to help foster growth and healing within individuals and groups is what motivates me in everything I do.

 

I partner with people who are already connecting in their communities in various ways to build relationships. I utilize art as a way of enhancing what they are already doing. I do this through coming alongside them through things like live painting, small group art activities, collaborative art projects, mural work, and conversations to engage with them more intimately. This kind of interaction and collaboration can often lead to moments of healing and reconciliation within individuals and communities. For example, I was asked by some friends to facilitate a collaborative art project with some youth at an orphanage in Lithuania that allowed for therapeutic conversation amongst the group about pain, loss, and identity.

 

I also approach my art making with this same kind of collaboration through mixed media. Intertwining the combination of styles influenced by abstract expressionism and photo realism, I use numerous layered techniques with mediums such as acrylic paint, latex house paints, chalk pastel, charcoal, graphite, ink pens, printed images on paper, and matte medium. My tools of speech can be brushes, knives, squeegees, rags, spray bottles, my hands and even my feet.

 

Whenever I enter new artistic opportunities, whether in planning a commissioned painting, entering a project with other artists, or interacting with other cultures, I approach my creative process in the same way allowing the mediums, the expressions, and the people to share in a story together in a more unified way. This collaboration is what inspires me. I believe we've been given creativity as a language to relate to each other with. When we connect into the conversation through creativity and allow for collaboration, we are helping to build community together and this fosters relationship. And the walls become invisible between us.