Lisa Davis · Sunshine Coast

Art for Wellbeing

Kaiviti celebrates art, the creative process, and the spirit of creativity. It is a space to explore your own creative potential, and to discover how creative expression can open pathways to self-discovery, personal growth, and new possibilities. Lisa's original paintings are her own practice, and they show the artist who guides the work.

Art for Wellbeing Her paintings

Among the Gums #1

Among the Gums #1 300mm x 250mm

Empowerment and healing through creativity

Two ways to take part

Lisa Davis is based on the Sunshine Coast. Work with her one to one, in person or on Google Meet, or join the Art4Wellbeing Program.

1:1 Living Creatively Well

Life and wellbeing coaching, in person on the Sunshine Coast or on Google Meet.

Read about 1:1 coaching

The Art4Wellbeing Program

A virtual group on Google Meet, one session a week.

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I learned to let go.

Suzy, program participant

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Lisa Davis walking on a forest path

The Artist

Lisa Davis

Lisa Davis is the artist behind Art for Wellbeing. Her experience, her qualifications, and her own paintings are here.

Sunshine Coast based artist Lisa Davis has always loved to draw and create. She completed a Diploma of Visual Arts and began conducting painting and drawing workshops on the Sunshine Coast in 2001. She later completed a Bachelor of Arts, with a double major in psychology and sociology.

Diploma of Visual ArtsBachelor of Arts

Her own work

Lisa's paintings

These paintings are Lisa Davis's own practice. They show the artist behind Art for Wellbeing. Available pieces can be collected, or a piece can be created for you.

A piece of your own

Have a piece created specifically for you

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KAIVITI
Empowerment and Healing Through Creativity
Art as Sacred Practice
Art4Wellbeing
BA Psych.Soc., Dip.Vis.Arts,
Cert. sacred space holder.

Some new opportunities! More info on my Facebook page @kaivitiart #artforwellbeing #creativity #transformation #creativehealing #connection

Some new opportunities! More info on my Facebook page @kaivitiart #artforwellbeing #creativity #transformation #creativehealing #connection

I have been a little quiet here, so I thought I would jump on and let you know what I have been busy creating IRL #creativity #artforwellbeing #authenticallyme #irl

I have been a little quiet here, so I thought I would jump on and let you know what I have been busy creating IRL

#creativity #artforwellbeing #authenticallyme #irl

So good to connect, create, and give and receive some loving healing energy today 🙏💕🌿 #dayretreat #selfcare #artforwellbeing #creativehealing #findjoyinthejourney

So good to connect, create, and give and receive some loving healing energy today 🙏💕🌿

#dayretreat #selfcare #artforwellbeing #creativehealing #findjoyinthejourney

“The circle is a symbol of wholeness, of returning to the Self.” This weekend, I’m holding a free Mandala workshop for women over 40 - a sacred space to reconnect with your inner world through the simple yet powerful act of drawing within a circle. Carl Jung believed that the mandala represents the psyche’s journey toward balance and integration. Each line, shape, and colour becomes a mirror, a message, a healing. No experience needed - just a willing heart and some curiosity. 🌸 If you’re ready to explore, to ground, to remember the wholeness already within you… this space is for you. Tag a woman who might love this. ✨ #MandalaWorkshop #CreativityForHealing #ArtAsMedicine #JungianArt #WomenOver40 #SacredCircle #ArtForWellbeing

“The circle is a symbol of wholeness, of returning to the Self.”
This weekend, I’m holding a free Mandala workshop for women over 40 -
a sacred space to reconnect with your inner world through the simple yet powerful act of drawing within a circle.

Carl Jung believed that the mandala represents the psyche’s journey toward balance and integration. Each line, shape, and colour becomes a mirror, a message, a healing.

No experience needed - just a willing heart and some curiosity. 🌸
If you’re ready to explore, to ground, to remember the wholeness already within you… this space is for you.

Tag a woman who might love this. ✨

#MandalaWorkshop #CreativityForHealing #ArtAsMedicine #JungianArt #WomenOver40 #SacredCircle #ArtForWellbeing

A little bit of inspiration. Nature is an endless source of inspiration, I feel so connected to Morher Earth and her gifts, and so present when I stop to notice her beauty. Be inspired! #nature #natureishealing #beinspired #creativeinspiration

A little bit of inspiration. Nature is an endless source of inspiration, I feel so connected to Morher Earth and her gifts, and so present when I stop to notice her beauty.
Be inspired!

#nature #natureishealing #beinspired #creativeinspiration

My artworks consist of many layers, each layer is like the layers of self… when we work through revealing these hidden layers, we can discover what is ready to be healed. Art makes space for the soul to speak 🩵 #layers #selfhealing #originalartwork #artforwellbeing #creativehealing

My artworks consist of many layers, each layer is like the layers of self… when we work through revealing these hidden layers, we can discover what is ready to be healed.
Art makes space for the soul to speak 🩵

#layers #selfhealing #originalartwork #artforwellbeing #creativehealing

#ephemeralart These little creations made from grasses were dropped around the Sunshine Coast at Ilkley, Image Flat and Coes Creek… The more we can practice letting go, the easier it becomes 🦋 #creativelyhealing #artforwellbeing #lettinggo #artislife

#ephemeralart
These little creations made from grasses were dropped around the Sunshine Coast at Ilkley, Image Flat and Coes Creek…
The more we can practice letting go, the easier it becomes 🦋

#creativelyhealing #artforwellbeing #lettinggo #artislife

Come to HerbFest at Coolum Sunday 15th 2025. Create with me using fresh herbs and florals from 12 midday -2pm to make your own smudge stick. Just drop in between those times, this is a free community event. See you there! HerbFest is open from 9am until 2pm, so you can make a day of it 🌿 #coolum #herbfest #creativity #creatingwithnature #herbalcraft

Come to HerbFest at Coolum Sunday 15th 2025.
Create with me using fresh herbs and florals from 12 midday -2pm to make your own smudge stick. Just drop in between those times, this is a free community event.
See you there!
HerbFest is open from 9am until 2pm, so you can make a day of it 🌿

#coolum #herbfest #creativity #creatingwithnature #herbalcraft

Perfect for Home Blessings, this little bundle of joy is made from sunflower petals, patchouli leaves, eucalyptus leaves, paperbark, sheoak and grevillea leaves. This is a sustainable way to create smudging tools, using native foraged plants with personal meaning. #ethicalpractices #sustainablymade #smudgingtools #homeblessings #joy

Perfect for Home Blessings, this little bundle of joy is made from sunflower petals, patchouli leaves, eucalyptus leaves, paperbark, sheoak and grevillea leaves.
This is a sustainable way to create smudging tools, using native foraged plants with personal meaning.
#ethicalpractices #sustainablymade #smudgingtools #homeblessings #joy

Our Weaving and Wildcrafting community circle at Ilkley Haven this morning was beautiful. It was lovely connecting, sharing stories, and creating together. I always love meeting new women in these spaces as well as seeing familiar faces show up again and again. Today we spent some time wandering in the forest grounds looking for natural smudging materials. There are many things you can use to smudge with. We used gum leaves (2varieties), gum flowers and bark, paperbark, silky oak leaves, and Lilly pilly leaves. I think the result was very pretty 🌿 Thank you to the women who showed up today, I appreciate your presence and hope your soul feels as uplifted as mine does. Always a pleasure to create in this space 🫶 #artforwellbeing #wildcraft #foraged #creativity #community

Our Weaving and Wildcrafting community circle at Ilkley Haven this morning was beautiful. It was lovely connecting, sharing stories, and creating together. I always love meeting new women in these spaces as well as seeing familiar faces show up again and again.

Today we spent some time wandering in the forest grounds looking for natural smudging materials. There are many things you can use to smudge with. We used gum leaves (2varieties), gum flowers and bark, paperbark, silky oak leaves, and Lilly pilly leaves. I think the result was very pretty 🌿

Thank you to the women who showed up today, I appreciate your presence and hope your soul feels as uplifted as mine does.

Always a pleasure to create in this space 🫶

#artforwellbeing #wildcraft #foraged #creativity #community

Come and join me, foraging amongst the trees at @ilkleyhaven to discover what natural and freely available materials you can use for smudging. We will forage and then we will make our very own smudge stick to cleanse your aura and your home. This is part of our new monthly community event - Weaving and Wildcrafting! To register or to find out more, please follow the link below🌿 https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fweaving-and-wildcraft%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHmfJlNT6efMAOEZw3zKWOuIeoQIy28Ya78HOTtUSmyP4ighxeNYBSRpei4hd_aem_cnmDCMz5YNYUQk7gyEuZ_g&h=AT2FOHxUvnj0HHJDus7cX6bU8fV8Gf4LuQM47CNW9dsC7UUgYTRrAys-dqEImmFWudlp3cRPNT1xePaOMNiXeLCyOfhcyEFwIYkzD-1dP5DWCjDqWrdWf3Fv3UQb&s=1 #communityevent #sunshinecoastevents #creativity #artforwellbeing #wildcrafting

Come and join me, foraging amongst the trees at @ilkleyhaven to discover what natural and freely available materials you can use for smudging.

We will forage and then we will make our very own smudge stick to cleanse your aura and your home.

This is part of our new monthly community event - Weaving and Wildcrafting! To register or to find out more, please follow the link below🌿

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.humanitix.com%2Fweaving-and-wildcraft%3Ffbclid%3DIwZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABHmfJlNT6efMAOEZw3zKWOuIeoQIy28Ya78HOTtUSmyP4ighxeNYBSRpei4hd_aem_cnmDCMz5YNYUQk7gyEuZ_g&h=AT2FOHxUvnj0HHJDus7cX6bU8fV8Gf4LuQM47CNW9dsC7UUgYTRrAys-dqEImmFWudlp3cRPNT1xePaOMNiXeLCyOfhcyEFwIYkzD-1dP5DWCjDqWrdWf3Fv3UQb&s=1

#communityevent #sunshinecoastevents #creativity #artforwellbeing #wildcrafting

My art making process always begins with explorative play - making marks on the canvas without thought, just playing with paint and other mediums without any idea of what the end result might look like. I may have a subject matter I am exploring, I will look at the colours, textures, shapes - these are the inspiration but there is no ‘MUST’ in how I proceed. I just go with what FEELS right. It is a skill to let go of the mind that wants to control outcome and get lost in the process of creating. This is how you free yourself in your art making, but it’s also a skill for LIFE. The more we can let go of how things ‘MUST’ be, the more open we are to discover what MAY be - and this is where the magic happens… it’s in that space of FREEDOM that we find the SOUL 💫 #creativity #artforwellbeing #lifeskills #freedom #freeyourmind #findyoursoul

My art making process always begins with explorative play - making marks on the canvas without thought, just playing with paint and other mediums without any idea of what the end result might look like.

I may have a subject matter I am exploring, I will look at the colours, textures, shapes - these are the inspiration but there is no ‘MUST’ in how I proceed. I just go with what FEELS right.

It is a skill to let go of the mind that wants to control outcome and get lost in the process of creating. This is how you free yourself in your art making, but it’s also a skill for LIFE.

The more we can let go of how things ‘MUST’ be, the more open we are to discover what MAY be - and this is where the magic happens… it’s in that space of FREEDOM that we find the SOUL 💫

#creativity #artforwellbeing #lifeskills #freedom #freeyourmind #findyoursoul

It always brings me such heartfelt joy, sitting in circle with beautiful sisters, creating and connecting in a beautiful forest setting. SO HEALING 🌿 Thank you to the ladies that came along this morning to learn coil weaving with Sheoak. We paid homage to our maternal ancestral lineage and to sisterhood. Thank you to Erin from @ilkleyhaven for taking some video of us all creating together. Always a pleasure to be in co-creation with you at your beautiful Haven 🙏 #womensupportingwomen #sacredcircle #artforwellbeing #weavingishealing #weavingcircle

It always brings me such heartfelt joy, sitting in circle with beautiful sisters, creating and connecting in a beautiful forest setting.
SO HEALING 🌿

Thank you to the ladies that came along this morning to learn coil weaving with Sheoak.
We paid homage to our maternal ancestral lineage and to sisterhood.
Thank you to Erin from @ilkleyhaven for taking some video of us all creating together. Always a pleasure to be in co-creation with you at your beautiful Haven 🙏

#womensupportingwomen #sacredcircle #artforwellbeing #weavingishealing #weavingcircle

My hands have held grief and joy, pain and purpose. Yesterday, they wove something simple, something sacred. Two little baskets - humble, imperfect, whole. And I am so deeply grateful… For the gift of my hands. For the quiet magic of creating. For the way weaving brings me home to myself. Tomorrow we are working with Sheoak - weaving, connecting, healing - in a beautiful sacred space set amongst the trees. Still a couple of spaces, reach out for the invite 🌿 #grateful❤️ #creativity #cre8ive_healing #healing #connection #sunshinecoast

My hands have held grief and joy, pain and purpose.
Yesterday, they wove something simple, something sacred.
Two little baskets - humble, imperfect, whole.
And I am so deeply grateful…
For the gift of my hands.
For the quiet magic of creating.
For the way weaving brings me home to myself.

Tomorrow we are working with Sheoak - weaving, connecting, healing - in a beautiful sacred space set amongst the trees.

Still a couple of spaces, reach out for the invite 🌿

#grateful❤️ #creativity #cre8ive_healing #healing #connection #sunshinecoast

Transformation doesn’t happen in an instant, it is an ongoing process that takes time and daily practice. You can transform your life, one step at a time. You do hold the power to transform your pain and use it for your own growth. Sometimes the best lessons are learned through the worst experiences. You are more resilient and wise from going through all of this. Be proud of how far you have come. This journey is not linear, it’s cyclical. Be patient with yourself and with life. The best is yet to come X #transformation #transformationalcoach #youareresilient #youarewise #itsaprocess

Transformation doesn’t happen in an instant, it is an ongoing process that takes time and daily practice.
You can transform your life, one step at a time.
You do hold the power to transform your pain and use it for your own growth. Sometimes the best lessons are learned through the worst experiences.
You are more resilient and wise from going through all of this.
Be proud of how far you have come.
This journey is not linear, it’s cyclical.
Be patient with yourself and with life.
The best is yet to come X

#transformation #transformationalcoach #youareresilient #youarewise #itsaprocess

Free Community Weaving circle this Monday. We will be working with Sheoak (aka casuarina/Australian pine). A familiar tree at our beautiful beaches here on the Sunny Coast. A few spots remain, please reach out for the invite 🌿🙏 @ilkleyhaven with @lisakaiviti #weavingishealing #womenscircle #creative #creativehealing #creativity

Free Community Weaving circle this Monday. We will be working with Sheoak (aka casuarina/Australian pine). A familiar tree at our beautiful beaches here on the Sunny Coast.
A few spots remain, please reach out for the invite 🌿🙏
@ilkleyhaven with @lisakaiviti

#weavingishealing #womenscircle #creative #creativehealing #creativity

The start of a new artwork… This is where I get to playfully explore, let go of any idea of outcome and just allow the creative process to work through me. Strips of painted paper are applied to the canvas, reminiscent of the varying barks found in a forest. A photocopied drawing of a kookaburra is cut out and added to the tree collage. These are the beginning layers - where it goes on its journey of creation is yet to be seen. I am trusting in the unknown 🙏 #play #trust #creativeprocess #australianartist #australianart

The start of a new artwork…
This is where I get to playfully explore, let go of any idea of outcome and just allow the creative process to work through me.

Strips of painted paper are applied to the canvas, reminiscent of the varying barks found in a forest. A photocopied drawing of a kookaburra is cut out and added to the tree collage. These are the beginning layers - where it goes on its journey of creation is yet to be seen.

I am trusting in the unknown 🙏

#play #trust #creativeprocess #australianartist #australianart

The tree fern knows - growth is not rushed nor forced… it TRUSTS. In its own time, it unfurls, guided by nature’s quiet wisdom. Growth isn’t something to force; it’s something to ALLOW. Trust your unfolding. #allowing #trust #growth #holisticwellbeing #artforwellbeing #wellbeingcoach

The tree fern knows - growth is not rushed nor forced… it TRUSTS.
In its own time, it unfurls, guided by nature’s quiet wisdom. Growth isn’t something to force; it’s something to ALLOW.
Trust your unfolding.

#allowing #trust #growth #holisticwellbeing #artforwellbeing #wellbeingcoach

I’m always drawn to the little treasures nature leaves behind… nests woven with care, delicate formations shaped by time. Each one is a whisper of creativity, reminding us that beauty is everywhere, just waiting to be found 🌿🪺☘️ #naturalfoundobjects #naturefinds #nest #creativity #artiseverywhere

I’m always drawn to the little treasures nature leaves behind… nests woven with care, delicate formations shaped by time.
Each one is a whisper of creativity, reminding us that beauty is everywhere, just waiting to be found 🌿🪺☘️

#naturalfoundobjects #naturefinds #nest #creativity #artiseverywhere

The Life and Soul of the painting is in the process of creating it 🎨🖌️ I really liked the initial collage of the forest. It stayed there a while, then I let it go. It is still there in the layers underneath - but through trusting the process the image was transformed. These underneath layers could be likened to our memories of situations that we needed to let go of. Something remains in the psyche, perhaps the transformation is like our ability to turn our wounds into wisdom. We go through a process that leads to our personal growth and remember the lessons we learned along the way. PLAY - LET GO - TRUST - RESOLVE - TRANSFORM (Explorations/joyful action - Letting go - Allowing - Risk taking/problem solving - Transformation) #creativeprocess #lettinggo #transformation #transformationalcoach #artforwellbeing

The Life and Soul of the painting is in the process of creating it
🎨🖌️

I really liked the initial collage of the forest. It stayed there a while, then I let it go. It is still there in the layers underneath - but through trusting the process the image was transformed.

These underneath layers could be likened to our memories of situations that we needed to let go of. Something remains in the psyche, perhaps the transformation is like our ability to turn our wounds into wisdom.

We go through a process that leads to our personal growth and remember the lessons we learned along the way.

PLAY - LET GO - TRUST - RESOLVE - TRANSFORM

(Explorations/joyful action - Letting go - Allowing - Risk taking/problem solving - Transformation)

#creativeprocess #lettinggo #transformation #transformationalcoach #artforwellbeing

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