“Art informed by encounters with humanity”
Tears fell when Pat read the following from Van Goph "a great fire burns within me but no-one stops to warm themselves at it , and passers by see only a whisp of smoke"
Let us all find our place on here and bring to life the way we can touch people with our art! I want them to say "wow she feels so deeply!"
Pat Armitstead is a mixed media artist working with acrylics, casting art and installations as primary expressions. Her collections have been housed under the banner of “Art informed by encounters with humanity”. She has been hailed as a “Spiritual midwife delivering people out of the darkness”, and her work depicts and fosters the healing of humanity through storytelling and portrayal of the transformative nature of life’s lessons.
A milestone in her arts career was working collaboratively with the artist David Poole to raise $450,000 and build an art gallery of distinction in Orewa, New Zealand. She has exhibited and sold her work for 20 years in New Zealand and is now preparing for her first solo exhibition back in Australia.
Pat is a Dressmaker and Costume Designer, Milliner, Film and TV make-up artist, bodypainter, scriptwriter, film producer, director, mixed media artist , journalist, videographer, and she now combines those talents to create canvases and installations that depict the healing of humanity and evolution of self. She has produced 10 documentaries and freelanced as a Journalist and camera person for Australian National News, 20:20 and 60 minutes.
Pat is a true Renaissance woman and like that other world renowned Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci , believes “learning never exhausts the mind.
A true Renaissance woman, Pat is the embodiment of a lifetime of being fully self expressed and lives it with every fibre of her body and mind.
Pat says“We cant all live a life in the performing arts, but we can live a life enhanced by them”
Pat agrees with what Seth Godin has to say about art.
“Art is what we call the thing an artist does. Its not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it ! What matters most, what makes it matter is that the person who made it overcame the resistance , ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky, something human. Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It is in the soul of the artist.”