About

Claudia Leona is an artist and writer whose art work explores the patterns, movement, emotion, transformation, and unseen forces that shape our existence.

Claudia grew up in a German immigrant family and began exploring art from an early age. As a teenager, she created stained glass windows, working with color, light, pattern, and form. 

Claudia has spent much of her life creating in different forms - through art, writing, research, and the exploration of what it means to inhabit a human life. Her art is influenced by the organic structures of the earth, the ethereal qualities of the universe, and the movement that exists at every scale between them.

Her visual work is intuitive and organic. Through watercolor, ink, paint, texture, repetition, and abstract form, she allows each piece to emerge gradually - following shape, movement, balance, and instinct as it takes on a life and form of its own.

Some pieces feel cellular, others geological, botanical, bodily, or almost cosmic. Much of the work lives somewhere between the recognizable and the unknown.

Each original is created by hand and carries the marks of its making - the layers, irregularities and movement that exists in subtle forms both in earthen terrain or in particles that exist in the universe.

Movement lives within every layer of the work. It exists in the changing density of color, in the smallest shapes formed within a passage, in the relationships between those shapes, and in the larger form they become together. The eye moves between these different scales, discovering something new with each return.

Each piece continues depending on what angle you look at it or what time of day the light hits it. Each piece continues to reveal itself, and in doing so, it feels alive.

For gallery inquiries, commissions, or questions about available works, please get in touch through the Contact page.