Lisa Silas

Lisa Silas has been an artist for 30 years.  She started studying dance as her first medium in her youth but was always very artistic in drawing and painting.  She received a B.A. in Art and Psychology in her 20s and then went on to study Drawing and Sculpture at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.  She left school to have a child and moved to South Africa where she worked in a foundry and taught and worked with the South African sculptor Dylan Louis.  She then moved to Santa Cruz, California and was apart of the largest Art Space developoment project for artists in the United States.  There she opened a small atelier and lived on an artists campus with a theatre, restaurant, dance school, glass blowing studio, sculpture studio, many painting studios, print makers studio, the city's arts council, and 100 artists homes.  Over 1500 people came through the first exhibit in her studio to see the artist and her work.  She then went on to work for 10 years on this project with most of her students coming to her for two years and services inlcuded art shows, regular art classes, festivals, and a sculpture installment.  Lisa won third place in The Representational Arts Conference competion with her sculpture of Irene in 2015.  She regulary shows in figurative arts galleries with Pajaro Gallery, Blitzer Gallery, and Felix Culpa Gallery in Santa Cruz, CA.

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