Karon Leigh is an expressionistic contemporary artist working in mixed media and encaustic. She currently resides in Green Valley, Arizona, about 25 miles south of Tucson.
Bio:
Karon has been interested in art since she was a small child and has won awards in art since an early age. She studied art at California College of Arts & Crafts, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Kirkland Arts Center and in workshops with a number of professional artists.
Karon currently resides in southeastern Arizona where she teaches mixed media and encaustic painting as well as monotype printmaking classes. As a mixed media artist she enjoys working with a variety of materials including oil pastels, printmaking, collage and encaustic and is often abstract and expressionistic in her style with dramatic and bold use of color.
Artist’s Statement
Karon is fluent in a variety of mediums – often choosing to work in one or more at a given time as their inherent sensibilities reflect and embody her intent. Expressionist painter and printmaker, Karon Leigh is clearly and powerfully influenced by place, light and time. The landscapes of her surroundings are evidenced as transitory thoughts, feelings or memories that speak, through her layered and textural encaustics. Drenched in the colors and almost ethereal qualities of light and depth that are so unique to the encaustic method.
“Interested in how our surroundings affect us, I am drawn to landscapes and influenced by time of day or weather, my paintings are intuitively created and often dictated by the painting itself as it evolves and develops through the building of numerous layers of encaustic, oil pastels, oil paint and other mixed media as needed. The finished work invites the viewer to experience a moment in time, a memory or a place long forgotten.”
- Karon Leigh |
