She participates yearly in the Heart Art Show at the Cicada Metals Gallery, Art for the Masses, and the Spring Flea at the Brooklyn Arts Center. Her work has been featured in many local magazines – Encore, WILMA, Wrightsville Beach Magazine, SALT, and Haven (the Bald Head Island Magazine) – as well as highlighted on a nationally syndicated PBS show. She also created a tribute piece to Minnie Evans–a small mosaic wall around the back of the structure. She helped over 100 local students create the mosaic stepping stones that adorn the foundation and walkway into the chapel. In 2004, she was invited to be one of the contributing artists to the Minnie Evans Sculpture Garden and Bottle Chapel in Airlie Gardens. For nearly twenty years, Brooks volunteered as an art teacher at her children’s elementary school, New Horizons. Art gives her life! Art is her happy place! Art is the pathway to her destiny!īrooks Koff “paints with glass” creating unique Stained-Glass Mosaics that beg for a sunny window to catch and transform light into brilliant color! Unlike traditional stained-glass work, her pieces are created without the use of patterns, giving her freedom to fully explore color and design. Challenges in life have allowed her to see that art can bring light to any darkness. Creating has always been a much needed express that she could never quite stay away from even when she tried.
Since she was old enough to hold a pencil within her palm she has been a creator. With her mother and father now being her angels she openly allows their aspirations to become her inspirations for every one of her creations. His beloved passion for music, creating, and futuristic ways of thinking would all be gifts he did not keep for himself. Although her father was already her guardian angel before she was born she would leave throughout her life of the gifts he left behind within her.
Lucky Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY, to a mother whom had many artsy talents including sewing, upholstery and the natural freestyling ability to take what many would call trash and turn it into an invented masterpiece before its time. I hope to share my work more widely in the future. To this day I am still inspired by the magic of nature and the remnants of historical architecture hidden within. I explore different mediums, from acrylic to digital, with the hopes of finding creative ways to tell the stories of places I see. A true blessing.Īt the heart of it, I’m a storyteller. My time at UNCW has allowed various forms of art to slowly seep back into my life. Creating things from leaf collages to pencil drawings.Īfter being told art was not a “stable” career, I pursued my other love of Environmental Studies and English-obtaining a Masters from UNCW, where I now lecture. Growing up in the Adirondack Mountains, I found my own muse in the natural beauty of the woods nestled alongside the glacial lakes. She would bring me to her art classes, where I would sit crossed-legged on the floor, mesmerized by the delicate application of her watercolors. As I got older, my mom was (and is) my inspiration. I carried my “learn to draw” book with me everywhere and believed the array of colors could transport me to another place.
When I was four, I would paint exotic birds, sea creatures, and tropical plants.