ABOUT

Shannon Leigh’s interest in the arts started at a young age. Her mother, an interior designer, encouraged her to nurture her creative side. She began winning awards at age 10 and selling her paintings in high school. She went on to study Graphic Design and then Fine Arts at Arizona State University before heading North to start her own studio in Seattle, Washington. She re-located with her family significantly and her travels continued on in her later life. Her experiences living in Montana, Arizona, Mexico, Washington State, New Mexico and Tennessee have shaped her art practice in technique and style. Leigh has produced an expansive variety of artwork: Multiple editions that have been seen in the catalogs of Horchow and Spiegel, and in showrooms at High Point, NC. Original works that have been represented by Roche Bobois, Seattle and Re-Creations, Nashville. She has participated in acclaimed art shows such as Bellevue Fine Art Show (Seattle, WA), Harding Academy (Nashville, TN), Brentwood Academy (Nashville, TN), and most recently The Celebration of Fine Arts (Scottsdale, AZ)and Hidden in the Hills (Cave Creek, AZ). Her commission works have run the gamut from seven aluminum sculptures on a cruise ship in Alaska to celebrity homes, commercial spaces, and in her beloved Collector’s treasured spaces.

ARTIST STATEMENT

 
 

I consider myself a hybrid painter. My work reflects the multifaceted Americana landscape through the intersection of culture and history. I stylistically paint in smooth, even textures, taking a linear and figurative approach to perspective. Inspired by the beauty and symbolic thread of connection as those in stained glass, I mend stories at the seams in bold lines that unite fragments of an imaginary narrative. Often, I choose to paint bodies faceless; questioning and opening up the possibilities of identity. Architecturally, passages are binary, purposefully leaving the viewer to question. Finding elements from the many places I’ve lived, in the Northwest, Southwest and South, I identify and find harmony in my experiences as I explore human connections in an ever changing landscape of a modern timeline.

 
 
 

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