Leigha Nicole
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www.ArtPal.com/leighanicole
leighanicole@gmail.com
719-209-8518
Leigha Nicole moved to the San Luis Valley in 2005 from Point Reyes Station, California. Her career and professional education in dance, yoga and bodywork brought her to different parts of Asia from 1983-2009 which planted the seeds of artistic curiosity.
Ning Yeh, the Emmy Award winning art professor has been her main influence and teacher in Chinese brush painting since 1990, with whom she has studied with at UCLA, Cerritos and Coastline Colleges.
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 solo art shows in Point Reyes, Ca. (2000), Larkspur, Ca. (2003/2004) and was the featured artist at the Shumei Institute here in Crestone (2014/2015).
Leigha’s art is a blend of Chinese brush painting, Japanese sumi-e and western watercolor. Her work continues to be very influenced by her training in traditional Japanese spiritual and cultural art forms. She has been a student of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism since 1989 as well as a student of both the Sogetsu and Ikenobu styles of Ikebana (flower arranging). She is currently an avid practitioner of Chanoyu (tea ceremony) thru the Urasenke Foundation of San Francisco and continues her studies when possible with Sensei Minako Tsuji in Saratoga, California.
She is thoroughly enchanted with the seasonal majestic beauty of Crestone and is sure that it will inspire her artwork for many years to come.
www.ArtPal.com/leighanicole
leighanicole@gmail.com
719-209-8518
Leigha Nicole moved to the San Luis Valley in 2005 from Point Reyes Station, California. Her career and professional education in dance, yoga and bodywork brought her to different parts of Asia from 1983-2009 which planted the seeds of artistic curiosity.
Ning Yeh, the Emmy Award winning art professor has been her main influence and teacher in Chinese brush painting since 1990, with whom she has studied with at UCLA, Cerritos and Coastline Colleges.
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 solo art shows in Point Reyes, Ca. (2000), Larkspur, Ca. (2003/2004) and was the featured artist at the Shumei Institute here in Crestone (2014/2015).
Leigha’s art is a blend of Chinese brush painting, Japanese sumi-e and western watercolor. Her work continues to be very influenced by her training in traditional Japanese spiritual and cultural art forms. She has been a student of the Rinzai school of Zen Buddhism since 1989 as well as a student of both the Sogetsu and Ikenobu styles of Ikebana (flower arranging). She is currently an avid practitioner of Chanoyu (tea ceremony) thru the Urasenke Foundation of San Francisco and continues her studies when possible with Sensei Minako Tsuji in Saratoga, California.
She is thoroughly enchanted with the seasonal majestic beauty of Crestone and is sure that it will inspire her artwork for many years to come.
