After stumbling upon some images of pink albino ball pythons – ones that looked a lot like glazed donuts – I became enthralled with the combination. I first made a few smaller artworks (and a pin design) featuring individual snakes in donuts, but I still wanted to paint even more snakes in donuts, as there are so many lovely and interesting breeds out there. In this painting, you can find 11 snakes: Corn Snake, Milk Snake, Ball Python, Hognose, Albino Milk Snake, Mexican King Snake, Garter Snake, Green Vine Snake, Rosy Boa, Black Mamba, and Red-headed Krait.
Lisa LaRose is best known for her acrylic paintings: Bizarre and Colourful artworks. She creates lively and exciting colour palettes and is always making something a little weird. Her work conveys themes of fantasy, nature, life, death, and health. Lisa enjoys creating art that has room for interpretation, striving to share a mood or feeling, and she enjoys hearing new interpretations from those experiencing her art. Lisa resides in Vancouver, BC where she works as a full-time artist. She paints and draws comics – creating new work to sell at shows.
The Lantern City is grateful to be held on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We acknowledge our privilege to be gathered on this land, and commit to work with and be respectful to the Indigenous peoples whose arts and stories inspire us to bring communities together.
