Leigha Nicole
www.splendidartwork.com
[email protected]
719-209-8518
Leigha Nicole moved to Colorado in 2005 from Point Reyes, California. Her career and professional education in dance, yoga and bodywork brought her to different parts of Asia starting in 1983 which, planted the seeds of artistic curiosity.
Dr. Ning Yeh, the Emmy-Award winning art professor has been her main influence and teacher in the Po Mo (spontaneous) style of Hsieh-I Chinese Brush Painting, with whom she studied at UCLA, Cerritos and Coastline Colleges since 1989.
She was a scenic painter for the Yani Forbidden City Concert Tour '97 in Beijing, China. Also, she painted scenery for and participated in the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics '98 in Nagano, Japan. She has had several solo art shows in Northern California and was the featured artist at the Shumei International Institute in Crestone, Colorado in 2015, 2026 as well as participating in several group shows hosted by Shumei.
Leigha's art is a blend of traditional Chinese Brush Painting and Japanese Sumi-e. Her work continues to be inspired by her training in traditional Japanese spiritual and cultural art forms, most recently on the Kumano Kodo and OHenro temple pilgrimages. She has been a student of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism since 1992 as well as a student of both the Sogetsu and Ikenobu styles of Ikebana (flower arranging). Leigha is an avid practitioner of Chado (tea ceremony) through the Urasenke lineage for over 2 decades and recently had the opportunity to study in Kyoto, Japan. She continues her tea education when possible with Sensei Minako Tsuji in Saratoga, California and Sensei Kathy Lyons in New Mexico.
Leigha is throughly enchanted with the seasonal majestic beauty of Colorado and is honored to be a part of the annual Crestone Artists Open Studio Tours as well as a teacher at the Monte Vista Crane Festival. She teaches virtual Brush Painting classes 3 Sundays a month and occasional in-person workshops out of her studio.
To keep up-to-date with Leigha's Brush Painting workshops and classes, please subscribe to her mailing list: [email protected]
or visit: SplendidArtwork.com
[email protected]
719-209-8518
Leigha Nicole moved to Colorado in 2005 from Point Reyes, California. Her career and professional education in dance, yoga and bodywork brought her to different parts of Asia starting in 1983 which, planted the seeds of artistic curiosity.
Dr. Ning Yeh, the Emmy-Award winning art professor has been her main influence and teacher in the Po Mo (spontaneous) style of Hsieh-I Chinese Brush Painting, with whom she studied at UCLA, Cerritos and Coastline Colleges since 1989.
She was a scenic painter for the Yani Forbidden City Concert Tour '97 in Beijing, China. Also, she painted scenery for and participated in the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics '98 in Nagano, Japan. She has had several solo art shows in Northern California and was the featured artist at the Shumei International Institute in Crestone, Colorado in 2015, 2026 as well as participating in several group shows hosted by Shumei.
Leigha's art is a blend of traditional Chinese Brush Painting and Japanese Sumi-e. Her work continues to be inspired by her training in traditional Japanese spiritual and cultural art forms, most recently on the Kumano Kodo and OHenro temple pilgrimages. She has been a student of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism since 1992 as well as a student of both the Sogetsu and Ikenobu styles of Ikebana (flower arranging). Leigha is an avid practitioner of Chado (tea ceremony) through the Urasenke lineage for over 2 decades and recently had the opportunity to study in Kyoto, Japan. She continues her tea education when possible with Sensei Minako Tsuji in Saratoga, California and Sensei Kathy Lyons in New Mexico.
Leigha is throughly enchanted with the seasonal majestic beauty of Colorado and is honored to be a part of the annual Crestone Artists Open Studio Tours as well as a teacher at the Monte Vista Crane Festival. She teaches virtual Brush Painting classes 3 Sundays a month and occasional in-person workshops out of her studio.
To keep up-to-date with Leigha's Brush Painting workshops and classes, please subscribe to her mailing list: [email protected]
or visit: SplendidArtwork.com
