Leah Dunaway
Wimberley, TX
Artist's Statement:
Creating work that draws in and engages the viewer is the challenge. I am an abstract studio painter who works with acrylics and mixed media, using multiple layers of paint and texture to create a dialog with the observer. I intend for my work to create a visual conversation between the seen and unseen, which encourages the viewer to complete the story. Editing my work with color, shape, and line allows me to express mood, ideas, relationships, and invention. My work is derived from integrating sensory images, events, emotions and ideas from the concrete and abstract. Everything I experience, see, feel, think—all are source material for my art, emerging, hopefully, as engaging, unique work.
Artist's Bio:
Leah Dunaway is an abstract studio artist from Wimberley, Texas, who works in a setting surrounded by oaks and cedars, with frequent wildlife visitors. Her studio overlooks a valley that is various shades of sage, mauve and gold, depending on the time of day and weather. The beautiful quiet setting nurtures the creative process and continually inspires her imaginative art.
She began as a representational artist, then progressed to an impressionist style, then to abstraction. She studied drawing and painting at Silvermine Art School in Norwalk, Connecticut, the Art League of Houston, Texas, and Laguna Gloria in Austin, Texas, as well as with individual instructors.
Her work is shown in 1550 Gallery, Kerrville, Texas, Gallery on the Square, Wimberley, Texas, AnArte Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, and her studio. She has been in and received awards in many juried shows, and many of her paintings are in private collections.
A painter who works with acrylics and mixed media, she uses multiple layers of paint and texture to create a visual conversation with the viewer. She edits her work with color, shape, and line to express mood, ideas, relationships, and invention.
