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Kathleen LeRoy Studios

About

I was born in 1966, raised in the deep south and currently live at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and edge of the great plains of Colorado.  Both places influence, inform, and inspire my abstract landscape paintings. My work reveals the places that are redolent of memories of nature throughout my life. The continued imaginings of southern landscape have an important influence on my work to this day.  Over the last decade as an artist, I have come to recognize how much the simplicity of early experiences taught the way I see the world and eventually create on the canvas. This new introspective series of paintings is about discovering place and crafting it.

I use acrylic paint on stretched canvas, mostly palette knife with some brush, large scrapers, water, and rags.  I use a lot of paint, pushing and pulling to form heavy texture and diffuse lines. I believe art is integration of form and feeling, and that relying on too much of one or the other can come across confusing and leave the viewer unsatisfied.  But when a balance and harmony of the two emerges the viewer experiences a vibration that is palpable and moving.  To do this, I believe rather than paint a painting or create art I must show up and work, not think, and incorporate many intervals of stepping back and just looking at and being with the work in progress.

I am a member of Open Studios, Boulder, NoBo Art District and shows at the R Gallery + Wine Bar, Boulder, and the Crowd Collective permanently.  I have been showing locally in Boulder County and Denver since 2018.

Reach out if you would like to collect a piece of art, have questions or any thoughts about my art or if you like to see some of it in person.  My studio is located in Boulder, Colorado. info@kathleenleroyart.com

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