Lisa Fittipaldi - a blind artist with an amazing inner vision.

Lisa Fittipaldi - a blind artist with an amazing inner vision.

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The story of this blind artist is extraordinary and unbelievable.Professional CPA with a photographic memory, Lisa Fittipaldi lost her vision due to a vascular disease in 1993.

 

 

She lost her job too, but overcame blindness and began painting in 1995. Her paintings are so colorful and bright;it’s hard to believe that they were drawn by a blind person who can’t even see colors or distance.

 

 

 

The main challenge to Lisa was when she was told she could never create complex scenes of everyday life with people as main characters. But she managed to do so, and today her paintings are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.

 

Lisa Fittipaldi is a unique artist with an amazing inner vision.

Born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1948, Lisa Fittipaldi attended the University of Michigan receiving a Bachelors of Art degree in education in 1970. She then attended nursing school at the University of South Carolina where she met her husband Al in 1972. They were married in New York in 1974. She worked at the Baltimore Burn Center as a trauma care burn specialist with a Masters degree from the University of Maryland in 1976.