Artist: Lisa Buchanan

Craft Medium:  Mixed Media Artist's Statement: I have strived for years to come up with my own style and unique approach to making art and that is how my painted collage technique was born. I like to amuse and make my audience wonder how and why I made a piece. I create art that I want to look at for a long time and that makes me smile. I am a painter and mixed media artist who creates images using two different techniques. One is what I call painted collage where I draw, paint, cut apart, reassemble, and glue all of the random parts that I created onto a painted canvas. The other is mixed media jewelry, where I combine found objects with my own parts I make from clay. I work in other art forms, but what I love about mixed media is the freedom to combine images in unexpected ways and how these images evolve as the pieces are moved around. With this process, each layered addition can dramatically change the expression of the piece from one minute to the next.