Leigh Craven

Leigh Craven is a visual artist whose current body of work examines notions of physical and emotional death. She shares “These ideas are explored in moderately sized, ceramic and porcelain works decorated with underglazes, underglaze pencils, and colored slips. The figurative works are covered with painted and drawn imagery and/or surrounded by sculpted natural environments. These described elements of landscape are so immersive they camouflage the figures, making the two aspects completely intertwined, dissolving the boundaries between material and ethereal. Landscape is used as both a setting and metaphor to describe the complexity of life and the physicality of death.”

Leigh has exhibited extensively; she has been included in numerous national exhibitions and was selected to be a featured artist at the Bristol Art Museum in Storm Tossed supported by the Rhode Island Council for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment of the Arts. She was also a Kalos Foundation Visual Art Prize Finalist and Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Finalist.

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Leigh is featured in the Winter 2024 edition of Art Seen, Issue 14.