Leigh Sager
About the Artist
Leigh Sager is an art therapist and artist based in Nottingham. Her artwork is inspired by her own exploration of her internal world. Themes of suffering and joy appear in her work through the use of shadow and light, offering a reflection of navigating the both/and spaces of pain and pleasure, despair and resilience, and loss and connection. Leigh often works on single art pieces for months at a time. Constant transformation and slow, repetitive motions have become a key part of her process, allowing patience, rhythm, and time for the artwork to reveal itself.
'One for Sorrow'
Dimensions: 4ft x 4 ft x 3 inch canvas
Materials: Mixed media on canvas: tissue paper, clay, acrylic paint, watercolour, and silver leaf.
Description: A large, colourful canvas with showing white swirls and a silver raised charge across the middle of the piece.
'Two for joy'
Dimensions: 4ft x 3 ft x 3 inch canvas
Materials: Mixed media on canvas: tissue paper, acrylic paint, watercolour, spray paint, and gold leaf.
Description: Blue torn sheets of tissue paper cover a pink, sunset background. A center spiral has a bright gold circle in the middle.
'Eat me'
Dimensions: 5 inch by 4 inch by 5 inch
Materials: Medication bottles, rhinestones
Description: 2 orange prescription pill bottles covered in orange and reflective rhinestones.
'Speaking Seeing Blinding'
Dimensions: 7 inch by 6 inch by 4 inch
Materials: Sunglasses, silicone, gold leaf, rhinestones
Description: A pair of sunglasses that have golden mouths in each of the lenses where you would look out of them. On the outside, the lenses are covered in rhinestones.