Jackie Leishman
The Peace of Wild Things IX, 2020
70 x 48 inches
printmaking ink, pastel, acrylic and collage on paper.
Artist Statement: The world is collage to me. What happens at the edges and among the layers, where two different materials or ideas meet — that’s where I’m drawn. It is important to my process that I not use virgin working materials but rather fragments of older work and found materials. Something from something. Beauty from ashes. The paradox of holding two opposites. These ideas are embodied in the wilderness. In a world that is increasingly contentious, the need to feel peace within the chaos becomes more desperate. This is my attempt to sift through all the stimulus and unrest.
This work should be included because the world is and has been in crisis for a while and most people are walking around asking themselves how to make sense of it. In some ways we don't. But maybe we can find peace amongst this chaos. Just perhaps the answers are waiting to be found and this art is exploring that idea.
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Jackie Leishman
The Peace of Wild Things VIII, 2020
84 x 84 inches
printmaking ink, pastel, acrylic and collage on paper.
Jackie Leishman
The Peace of Wild Things XIV, 2020
70 x 48 inches
printmaking ink, pastel, acrylic and collage on paper.