About The Artist...
Lisa Agababian was born and raised in NYC and moved to Arizona in 1989. She has been playing with clay since 1969 from the age of seven and sharing her passion with others since she was sixteen. Her formal education is in mathematics and computers and although she has made her living as a Computer Consultant serving mostly the non-profit community, her artistic creativity made it's way in all that she touched. In exchange, her experience with everything and everyone touched her heART.

After years of contemplating a leap into her heART fulltime, the loss of her father (second parent) in 2004 pushed her over the edge and she was left with no other choice but to rise and shine or be consumed by the flames. Her art completely transformed during this time and in the fall of 2007, Lisa showed for the first time her new creations and sold to the public during the TPAC Open Studio Tour in Tucson, AZ. She currently shows her work in galleries and art shows in Arizona, her home studio by appointment and during the Tucson Open Studio Tour.

About Her Art…
Lisa does a bit of everything with low fire clay but with lots of bright colors and heart. She sometimes adds other media such as stained glass and metal. You will always find a heart in her pieces whether it is found in her personal signature, her spiral heart handle mugs, heart shaped platters, heart shaped wall hangings, jewelry or spiral heart ornaments.

Her functional tableware pieces are lead free, microwave safe, and dishwasher proof. Throwing mugs keeps her centered and filled with love as is her wish for you. Creating ceramic tableware allows her to stay connected to the simple pleasure of gathering with family and friends to enjoy good food and company. Making tableware also keeps the memory of her mother alive, whose language of love was largely through preparing and serving food which has been passed on to Lisa.

Lisa's wall heart hangings are personal expressions of the different states of being coming and going, which continue to be revealed to her as she experiences this life. In her process of acceptance, as she shares her inner self, her desire is to offer a connection as well as relief to others who feel alone on their journey.

Lisa's alters are a constant reminder to take time to be still in order to listen to ones inner voice, find a sense of safety and be divinely guided. They are also reminders of how beautiful and sacred everything really is including self; and to know at any time, getting back to joy is an option.

All her art including affirmation plaques, ornaments and jewelry are her hope of spreading balance, empowerment, acceptance, understanding, truth, and YOU, which spells out BEAUTY and looks like LOVE.

About Fuchsia Designs…
The domain name FuchsiaDesigns.com has been protectively parked away with register.com for many years, just as Lisa's dreams have been stored deeply within her. In 2007, as she was about to let go of the domain name, symbolic of her dream, things started to materialize.

Her journey with the color fuchsia started in 1996 when a Mayan Oracle suggested she meditate on the color fuchsia. What she reflected on is how the color fuchsia is made from joining red with violet which is opposite ends in the LIGHT spectrum (ROYGBIV).

She realized that if she could embrace all the colors in the light spectrum, which relate directly to feelings and energy centers in her body, she could feel complete and begin to live in wholeness once again - mind and body would unite, higher self (spiritual) and lower self (physical) would stop competing and begin communicating, the struggle between pairs of opposites (good/bad, right/wrong, male/female, etc) would dissolve and her insides could match her outside. It's like heaven and earth finally meeting and she's right in the middle experiencing THE MOMENT and FEELING LOVE and gratitude for it all. This is an ongoing practice for her.

Fuchsia Designs has everything to do with spreading LOVE beginning with SELF-ACCEPTANCE and SELF-LOVE, not self-judgment and self-hate. LOVE IS not only ALL WE NEED, it is what we need more of RIGHT NOW and what she hopes to manifest in the world with the collective conscience. The word fuchsia which sounds like future is the HOPE behind Fuchsia Designs.

Fuchsia Designs heART is Lisa's process and joy. Fuchsia Designs SPACE offers others to BE in their process and joy. Fuchsia Designs INTENTION is to spread LOVE by relaxing, connecting, reflecting, accepting and awakening to who we really are through clay heART, and hands-on clay workshops, offered in a safe & loving SPACE.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I only hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. - John Lennon and Yoko Ono.