About
Lisa Sara Jenkin is a visual artist from Kings Cross, London. Her practice is multidisciplinary and she works across mediums including; painting, collage, mosaic, stained glass, sculpture & site specific installation. She is a collector of materials and likes the idea of creating beautiful talismanic objects out of old discarded waste. This includes treasures found whilst mudlarking the Thames, combing beaches, raiding skips and collections of household waste. As well as, regular scouring of second hand shops and antiques markets.
Lisa began her art obsession at an early age when she was busy making messy abstract paintings, creating displays in her nursery and home and commandeering the dressing up box. She went on to an art foundation at Guildhall, followed by an Illustration degree at Camberwell The Arts. Later on in life she trained as an Art Psychotherapist at Roehampton University. Lisa is interested in Jungian psychology, western alchemy, the anthropology of art and the creative process. She has travelled to many parts of the world to explore the art & artefacts of cultures both ancient and modern.
Manifesto
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
Rainer Maria Rilke
