Leanne Powell “To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear”. (Stephen Levine)
Leanne Powell is an artist who grew up in the English countryside and who always was passionate about creating art, since the age of eight years old; she studied art and graphic design and, after a long time where art was simply a hobby, she recently started her professional career as an artist. She feels art as a way to heal the mind and soul, as a therapeutic process, and she enjoys a great variety of techniques, with a preference for soft pastels and acrylic painting. Her art aims at capturing emotions, both negative and positive, in order to explore them in her works, as we are able to see in the artwork “Movement of the Soul”. Away from traditional pouring techniques, the artist uses her own style, which is unique and expresses entirely her playful nature. In this sense, the artist shows us all the innocence and the desire of freedom that she felt when she was younger: playing with shapes and colours, she rediscovers her childhood. Therefore, art becomes a way to explore hidden feelings of the past and the conflict between the adult world with its orders and impositions and the world of children with its freedom and spontaneity. The artist shows us her identity in this “Coming out” by letting her inner child out since, whenever the adult world imposes itself, the world of children will always be able to come back through art and imagination.
Art Curator Maddalena Corbini