Featured Artist Leah Jay

Artsy Shark presents the vibrantly colorful portfolio of featured artist Leah Jay. Enjoy her work and see more by visiting her website.

 

 

I’m a self-taught artist who has explored various techniques, subjects, and styles for over 25 years. My art influences have included: Sulamith Wulfing, Brian Froud, Alphonse Mucha, Susan Seddon Boulet, Virgil Finlay, and Jove Tansson.

 

 

For the last few years I’ve returned to my true love – watercolors on paper. I get a lot of joy from flowing saturated watercolor on to soaking wet paper – this unpredictable process inspires me, frees my imagination and provides opportunities for “happy accidents” to influence the resulting shapes. Over this vivid foundation, I can then pursue my second love – detail – with pastel chalks, pencils, pen, and charcoal. Things bloom naturally from the mass of colors: creatures, figures, landscapes, skies, forests…

 

 

2011 was a banner year for me, with two gallery shows, a published book cover, and a CD cover. I’m grateful to learn more every day about social media and web marketing, volunteering with school art programs, and spend plenty of time painting, drawing, and dreaming. Lately I’ve been exploring greeting cards, licensing options, and print and pattern design as new venues for my work. As I look forward into 2012 and beyond, my goal is to become a better “internal listener” – to bring my art closer to my true childlike nature.

 

 

“…I unlearn, and become as I were a little child again, that I may enter into the Kingdom of God.” -Thomas Traherne