Colleen Leach

Awakening by Colleen Leach, Large Contemporary bright oil painting on board

2023

Sharon used a thick application of paint, real-life subject matter, and emphasized geometric forms, distorted for expressive effect, and used an unnatural, arbitrary color. Blue, cr...

Mel began her artistic career as a devoted clay sculptor. However, as time passed, she began to long for a change. Several years back she explored new options while exhausting more mediums than she can recall. It was during this period that she discovered a small batch of beeswax left behind from the last of her grandfather's beehives. Mel's grandfather, Sam Sekerak, spent his childhood in Russia where he was inspired to build an apiary farm. His dream came true as an adult in the States where he built and farmed his own set of beehives. As a young girl, Mel felt such a sense of peace walking amongst her grandfather's hives. She developed a very deep connection, respect, and appreciation for Mother Nature. Like many artists, she is a constant source of inspiration. This connection along with that old batch of beeswax is what led my transition away from clay and into encaustic painting (painting with molten beeswax). She is grateful for the intense labors of the beautiful honeybee, and consider beeswax a unique gift to be treasured. As a strange twist of fate, her name is translated in the Greek word for "honeybee". She loves traditional Japanese pottery and contemporary Japanese painting. The soft satin finish of the beeswax along with the ability to incise elegant clean lines, was just what she'd longed to achieve. While many Japanese works of art...

Lisa is a modern abstract artist and designer based in Nashville, Tennessee. She spends most of her time painting, bringing inspiration from her favorite artist, Paul Rand and her tr...

While I continue to be inspired by real, tactile items such as plaster, wire, and concrete, in this new work, I explored how I integrate in each piece the peaceful and edgy sides of ...

Lisa is a modern abstract artist and designer based in Nashville, Tennessee. She spends most of her time painting, bringing inspiration from her favorite artist, Paul Rand and her tr...

Lisa is a modern abstract artist and designer based in Nashville, Tennessee. She spends most of her time painting, bringing inspiration from her favorite artist, Paul Rand and her tr...

Original Abstract landscape painting in mixed media on wood panel. Titled "Oasis" Rooted in my Mediterranean travels, this explosion of Boho colors explores the native flora. This painting is signed on the front and back, coated with an archival UV semi-gloss varnish for protection and light luster...

Mixed media (oil, pastel and pencil) on a wooden panel. An intense, colorful, but at the same time essential, balanced and elegant, modern composition, in this gestural mixed media abstraction of a human figure, by Italian contemporary artist Federica Aiello Pini...

This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the artist's "Elements" series which creates intricate geometric minimalistic compositions. This work has a rustic and heavily textured quality, but the final result is intended to appear quiet to reflect a more minimal outlook on life and art. Creating pieces that allow us to escape the technological realm, contemplate modern living and nature and then communicate how each domain influences another. Her pieces aim to engage the viewer with an emotional and environmental disposition that evokes a sense of balance and tranquility in the modern world. This is a unique work is on baltic birch panel, and it signed and titled by the artist on verso. Art measures 8 × 8 inches A native New Yorker, Christie Owen...

This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the artist's "Elements" series which creates intricate geometric minimalistic compositions. This work has a rustic and heavily textured quality, but the final result is intended to appear quiet to reflect a more minimal outlook on life and art. Creating pieces that allow us to escape the technological realm, contemplate modern living and nature and then communicate how each domain influences another. Her pieces aim to engage the viewer with an emotional and environmental disposition that evokes a sense of balance and tranquility in the modern world. This is a unique work is on baltic birch panel, and signed and titled by the artist on verso. Art measures 8 × 8 inches A native New Yorker, Christie Owen...

This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the arti...

This piece Owen depicts an abstract composition with the use of mixed media and bold patterns producing work which is visually textured and rich with layers and is a part of the arti...