Kathleen LeRoy
LeRoy was born in 1966, raised in the deep south and currently lives at the foot of the Rocky Mountains and edge of the great plains of Colorado. Both places influence, inform, and inspire her abstract landscape paintings. The continued imaginings of southern landscape have an important influence on her work to this day.
Over the last decade as an artist, LeRoy has come to recognize how much the simplicity of early experiences taught her the way to see the world and eventually create on the canvas. LeRoy uses acrylic paint on stretched canvas, mostly palette knife with some brush, large scrapers, water, and rags. She uses a lot of paint, pushing and pulling to form heavy texture and diffuse lines. She believes that 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, LeRoy believes rather than paint a painting or create art she must show up and work, not think, and incorporate many, many intervals of stepping back and staring at the work in progress.
