Artist Biography

LeeAnn Love’s expressive, mixed media landscapes investigate the complex interplay of layered color, movement, and impermanence. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Out of the Blue Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ClearStory Arts in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Gallery27 in Dunbar, Scotland. LeeAnn has spearheaded several community mural projects in the greater Boston and Nashville areas and was selected as the Artist in Residence in Williamson County Schools in 2017. LeeAnn’s work has been published in East Lothian Life and Clover + Bee magazines.

In 2007, LeeAnn earned her master’s degree in Expressive Therapies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Upon returning to Tennessee in 2010, she created Heal with heART, her art therapy and counseling private practice and founded MyCanvas, a successful mobile youth community art therapy initiative, which served at-risk youth, both through workshops and exhibitions, in the greater Nashville area until 2021. Currently, LeeAnn continues to supervise new art therapists and consult with the Healing Arts Project Incorporated (HAPI) to provide art therapy workshops for adults who are in mental health or addiction recovery. LeeAnn enjoys exploring the delicate intricacies of nature and balancing her creative life in both Nashville, Tennessee and East Lothian, Scotland. 

Artist Statement

“More and more, in a place like this, we feel ourselves part of wild Nature, kin to everything.”

John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist

I feel exuberant and rooted snuggling at the base of a tree, plunging into the sea, wandering in the mountains, or dancing with the wind. Grounded in my Scottish ancestry and Southern heritage, my art draws on the deep connections between land, lineage, culture, history, ideology, and my place in both worldviews. My artwork serves as an homage, a practice of devotion, to the beauty and wildness of the natural world. Using both additive and subtractive processes in my paintings and printmaking work, I investigate the intricate dialogue between layered color, linework, movement, and viscosity of materials. Each landscape is a culmination of the dance between methodical preparation, experimental technique, and intuitive mark making. I aim to capture the spirit of place, an ancient essence and a fleeting impermanence, to be deeply embodied, savored, and relished. Each encounter becomes a physical manifestation within the art and the artist, while inviting viewers to contemplate their own connection and relationship to the earth.