L. R. Hughes is an American artist and Ohio native, born in Sidney, Ohio but living in Hamilton, Ohio for the majority of her life. Leah graduated from Miami University of Oxford, Ohio with her BFA in painting and sculpture. She has shown most recently at Art Space Hamilton in a group show “PUSH! Pioneers of Hamilton’s Art & Culture”.
As an artist, Leah has traditionally been an oil painter but has incorporated watercolor painting and cardboard sculpture into her portfolio. Her most recent influences have been the work of Guim Tio, Wayne White, Ali Cavanaugh and Laurence Vallieres. “I am obsessed with how the incredible can be crafted out of the mundane.” Much of Leah’s current work is influenced by everyday life. The transition between having been a single twenty something and becoming a wife and mother thirty something, the juxtaposition between who she is and who she has been, introspection. Leah was being driven to create with limited time and limited resources, making use of the “readily available”.
Leah’s current series “The Metamorphosis of the Female Form” evolved out of a previous series “The Selfie Series” a series of watercolor portraits. The Metamorphosis project attempts to depict the beauty in all female bodies. The way every flaw adds to the beauty of a life as it transforms from a youth to a woman. How the form grows and change in new and sometimes uncomfortable ways but is a road map of the journey. That despite what the media may tell us our imperfections are beautiful and unique, life giving and deserving of love and respect.
As an artist, Leah has traditionally been an oil painter but has incorporated watercolor painting and cardboard sculpture into her portfolio. Her most recent influences have been the work of Guim Tio, Wayne White, Ali Cavanaugh and Laurence Vallieres. “I am obsessed with how the incredible can be crafted out of the mundane.” Much of Leah’s current work is influenced by everyday life. The transition between having been a single twenty something and becoming a wife and mother thirty something, the juxtaposition between who she is and who she has been, introspection. Leah was being driven to create with limited time and limited resources, making use of the “readily available”.
Leah’s current series “The Metamorphosis of the Female Form” evolved out of a previous series “The Selfie Series” a series of watercolor portraits. The Metamorphosis project attempts to depict the beauty in all female bodies. The way every flaw adds to the beauty of a life as it transforms from a youth to a woman. How the form grows and change in new and sometimes uncomfortable ways but is a road map of the journey. That despite what the media may tell us our imperfections are beautiful and unique, life giving and deserving of love and respect.