Anna Lisabeth is an artist, writer, and photographer based in Excelsior, MN. After a lifelong battle with a rare and terminal illness called Pulmonary Hypertension, Anna received a lifesaving heart-lung transplant in August of 2018. Now, at the age of 29, Anna uses art and writing as a way of processing and overcoming the many challenges that her body sets before her.

As an artist, Anna works with a range of mediums and materials. Her recent collections have mainly been comprised of oil paintings, watercolor paintings, and ink monotypes. Her subjects are often of her own imagination - whimsical reimaginings of the life that sits before her, readily. In these creations, she is often working to capture a memory, a fragment of nostalgia, or a hope for the future.

Anna has also used writing to create record of her experiences, and promote awareness and visibility for life with rare and chronic illness. In 2019, she published a small collection of poetry, titled ‘In the Spaces’, which explores the year of her life prior to her heart-lung transplant. Additionally, she serves in an advocacy position as a columnist with Pulmonary Hypertension News. Through these columns, she revisits the challenges and triumphs of her years living with significant health issues.

All of Anna’s artistic pursuits are an effort to explore her grief, her femininity, the reconciliation of ‘self’ and ‘other’, and, ultimately, the ways in which her desperation for survival so directly contradicts the terminal reality we all face.

For any inquiries about specific pieces, or wholesale opportunities, please use the contact form on the home page, or send an email to annalisabethco@gmail.com