Issue 2 Artist Spotlight | LeeAnn Love
C+B: Tell us about yourself, LeeAnn!
LL: In addition to being a visual artist, I am an art therapist, a small business owner, and an art educator. I love spending my spare time hiking, kayaking, gardening, camping, and building campfires. When inside, I love to write, in addition to making art, and do yoga. One of my most favorite past times is making and eating gluten free foodie food with people I love. Something that people may not know about me is that I LOVE wearing costumes! I would dress up once a month in a costume if I could. Waiting for the perfect party for me to be the Corona Lisa.
C+B: Describe your work in three words.
LL: Colorful, expressive, naturalistic
C+B: What is your long term goal for creating?
LL: My long-term goal for artmaking primarily includes continuing to find an integration of my abstract expressionist painting style and merging it with my more naturalistic, representational style. I am beginning to incorporate selling and showing of my artwork more into my small business model – and I love this shift in my work identity! I love leading collaborative mural projects, and I plan to continue exploring ways that I can bridge groups of people who are generally not connected through mural making, I also really hope to be a National Park Artist in Resident one day. This is a bucket list dream of mine.
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(Washington Waterfall Sketch, mixed media, 8”x10” ©LeeAnn Love)
Ideal creative retreat: My ideal creative retreat is somewhere in the Pacific Northwest or New England, where the ocean meets the forest. I would love a balance between solitude in the beauty of nature, time exploring my creative process, and working alongside other artists to be inspired by their unique process and work.
Ideal collaboration: It would be fun to collaborate with a photographer, who is creating a shoot at a shared location. This way I can see his/her/their viewpoint, while I create a series of paintings at the same location. Also, there could be some off-site painting in response to his/her/their finished and edited photographs in order to create an overall show. It would be a deep collaboration, including discussing and processing, so it would likely need to be a friend of mine, or at bare minimum someone willing to move deeply into a shared process.
Currently inspired by: Amanda Hawkins @mandahawkstudio, Claire Sherman @claire.g.sherman, Paige Lindsey Design @paigelindseydesign, Richard Claremont @richard_claremont, Morgan Dyer @morganrdyer, Eva Kalien @evakalien
LeeAnn Love
