Bio and Artist Statement

Artist Statement

As an artist, a visionary, and fellow spirit, I aspire to show what lies beyond our common everyday experiences to help awaken the visual audience to connect with their higher self. I love to portray a sacred and magical place for people to experience. My imagery comes from dreaming, healing and psychedelic themes. Through a meditative state, the images reveal themselves from the depth of my spirit, and I allow the art to create itself. It is an intuitive process. These images arise through my quest for a deeper knowledge of life and life’s possibilities. You will find feminine symbols and sacred geometry throughout my work.

I  draw inspiration from music, spirituality, my roots, the beauty of the human form, the many facets of being a woman, and the movement the world is taking toward enlightenment.  I like to  weave threads from my Hebrew ancestry with those of others, where cultures collaborate. This is the duty of our time, to find a connection. We all share similar visions and it can be seen in ancient symbols throughout the world. No one owns them, we share them, it is the collective mind we are all part of.

As a life long learner, I continue to seek enlightening experiences and new tools to help me bring vision to form. Art is my medicine, I offer it to heal and inspire others to awaken consciousness and live life to the fullest…

I am another you,

Elisa Rose Mountain

Biography

Elisa Rose Mountain grew up in Chicago to a loving family that supported and helped inspire her growth as an artist from a very young age. As a child, Elisa knew that art was her calling and proceeded to explore and embrace her subconscious artistry through patterns and shapes. At age 14, she saw The Grateful Dead which exposed her to the festival subculture of America, and helped her find meaning in life through music and the desire for interconnectedness. The urban diversity of Chicago helped breed a curiosity in Elisa which yearned for a more natural environment to explore and abide in. After finishing up school at Buffalo Grove High, Elisa moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and received a B.A. in studio art from the College of Santa Fe. After many amazing years of hard work and skill building in the land of enchantment, she moved to Seattle, Washington and acquired a Masters in Teaching, from Seattle University. At the age of 27, she then traveled to Israel to gain understanding of her heritage and culture which later developed deep feelings and connections to her roots that are shown through her art. Further travels led Elisa to Costa Rica, Mexico, Italy, and most of America. She currently resides back in Chicago to be close to family and focus on her art and yoga. She continues to study different painting techniques, one of which reflects her current focus of the old master’s Mische Technique, a slow and complex painting technique that gives amazing effects of depth, transparency and a smoothness of colors and contours. Since 2010 she has taken seminars with Amanda Sage, Laurence Caruana, Andrew Gonzales, Martina Hoffman and Robert Venosa. Her “Butterfly Mandala” was featured as back cover of the spiritual women’s calendar We’Moon 2012 and she is currently developing an original style of one of a kind hats that have created a buzz throughout the world. As she continues to fine tune her style and commitment to her path, she leads a simple life dedicated to a healthy lifestyle, knowledge seeking, and being involved in creating collaborations with her peers and further mastering her artist voice.