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Anne Leith is a painter of places, both plein-air and imaginary. The landscape is integral to her practice and the personal immersion into a greater whole is her over-arching aesthetic.  There is a curious vibrating balance between the recognizable image, its abstraction, and that moment of achieving a beautiful painted surface.

Often  incorporating metallic leaf into the rich, gestural, oil-painted surface, Leith creates a dynamic other-worldly dimension.  Reflecting color and light, shifting from light to dark the gold or silver metal evokes traditional religious icons as well as a futuristic  ever-shifting fourth dimension as rivers appear to flow and clouds to rise and unfurl.

This balance between the outer and inner worlds and the passion channeled through the powerful, gestural brushwork  dissolves any separation between the self and the world.