Lorissa Manners is known for her expressive landscapes that capture the beauty, fragility and abundance of the natural world.
She draws inspiration from her life as a classical pianist, from the rhythm and movement of moments captured in time and space and the alteration of perceptions through faith, dreams and the ever shifting nature of the landscape. Her works draw the land and the poetic together in a symphony of vivid expression.
Truth : Beauty : Freedom
Studying art as a young student from her Grandmother - a realistic landscape and botanical oil painter on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland from the age of ten, to art school in her late teens and then apprenticing under the guidance of career artists Andy Collis and Peter Hales; Lorissa has developed her own recognisable style. From paintings of birdlife and waterscapes, to allusive creatures and pounding oceans, Lorissa is acclaimed for her expressive rendering, both realistic yet evocative.
Known for her golden fields, her unique stylistic theme of grasses throughout her works, her beautifully detailed realistic wildlife and her emotive atmospheric abstracts. These works show her mastery of the medium and compel our emotions. Many of her works are accompanied with poems, verse or musings which help to connect and inspire the viewer at a deeper level.
Lorissa's works expresses the raw forces of nature that reflect our most powerful emotions: fear and courage, peace and freedom, passion and power.
Lorissa lives near Noosa Heads, a beautiful beach town on the Sunshine Coast, with her two daughters. She has studied extensively for the last fifteen years, completing a double degree in both Visual Art and Music in her early 20s. Further to this, a Masters of International and Community Development, applying her study while traveling and working with several International Humanitarian Organisations.
She enjoys using her artwork as a platform to engage in and advocate for community causes such as environmental and wildlife conservation, social justice issues and local and global community development work.
For the last ten years she has worked from her home studio in the Noosa hinterland as an artist doing private commission work, showing and building her own body of work.