Lanisarty focusses on storytelling, promoting awareness around mental health, and uses art to communicate emotions and thoughts- both serious and whimsical.

The ideas underpinning Lani’s practice:

• Art does not have to be about skill but instead the experience and process of creating (which can totally transcend regular day-to-day living, create space for self reflection, BEAUTY, and FUN)

• Art (and the value of pleasing visual aesthetics) should be available to everyone, not just those who have studied it or understand it technically…art does not need to be reserved for technically ‘good’ artists…or the corporate art world

• Art can serve the purpose of bringing peace, calm and understanding to what can at times be a tumultuous life. It also brings clarification in the same way writing a journal entry might bring clarification of a thought or experience. Art tells stories, it allows for interesting communication, it connects us not only to our own story but to something much bigger than our individual selves.

Lani makes handmade, one-of-a-kind upcycled leather earrings and creates colourful illustrations and prints which are available to purchase.

Lani currently works as an art therapist and an artist to create commercial murals and run community workshops.