Lisa King-Floore (pronounced like FLORA) is a varied artist, poet and musician. Born December Sixteenth, The Day of Soaring Imagination, Lisa is a native of Chickasaw County and was raised in Calhoun, Hinds, Forrest, and Harrison counties. She has also lived in San Diego, California; however, she chose to return to her beloved Mississippi roots in 1993 to stay. She studied art and communications at Hinds Community College and Mississippi College respectively. Lisa has studied art with local artists Melanie Atkinson, Becky Barnett, Mike Hataway, and Diane Norman, and the late Richard Gerald was her beloved art teacher at Forest Hill High School.
Along with well known artists such as Henri Rousseau and Van Gogh, Lisa's favorite artists are mostly Mississippi artists, including Walter Anderson, Wyatt Waters, and Jimmy Pitts. She has a love for many types of art but there is a special place in her heart for outsider and folk art.
Lisa's work is generally a result of pure enjoyment. It is incredibly random, and she might jump from writing to music to visual art without warning or reason. Sometimes she jumbles them together. Her art is not generally done to make any sort of statement or to prove a point. It’s a product of her creativity flowing out, and purely must be done. She persistently looks at the world creatively, as if she could use each facet of it in some artsy project. She's a scavenger and packrat who saves all sorts of items for potential projects. As ideas stream from all around her, everything she hears or sees could become something written about or painted. Lisa simply enjoys doing art in whatever form that strikes her at a given moment. If her art brings a smile to the face of another person or touches them positively, this makes it all the more meaningful to her!
