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Leah
@leahart.bsky.social
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Sitting between a cat & a crow, in adrenaline withdrawal, paintinge visions that float past.
Artist, Semi-Professionally Death Adjacent. Madison WI.
No AI

https://LeahMacLeod.Art
etsy.com/shop/LeahMacLeodFineArt
https://www.leahmacleod.art/link-in-bio/
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Penitent IV 9x12" oil on board.

This is the final (for now) painting in a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.

This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
Penitent IV: An oil painting of a young woman sitting in front of a sunny landscape filled with hills. The near background features blue and orange pollinator flowers. The sky is blue with clouds stretching into a distant horizon. The woman wears a pink top and a golden medallion of a butterfly on a strand of barbed wire around her neck. Her head is ringed by a golden nimbus halo depicting butterflies.
September 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
leahart.bsky.social
Penitent III 9x12" oil on board.

This painting is part of a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species.

This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.
Penitent III: An oil painting of a young woman wearing a loose white cloth robe. Around her neck is a golden medallion on a strand of barbed wire depicting a howling wolf. Her head is ringed by a golden nimbus halo with embossed wolves that are shown walking clockwise around the disk. There is a dark green landscape behind her, ending in blue hills on the horizon under a dark blue cloudy sky.
September 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
leahart.bsky.social
Human artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you
An oil painting depicting an owl perched on a large round copper disk. The disk shows a relief carving of a curving pictish style tree whose upper branches curl in on themselves to form the suggestion of a heart. Beneath the owl and disk, two rabbits sit comfortably on a twilight blue-green ground surrounded by grass. Behind the owl in the background a darkened blueish forest sits beneath a brilliant sunset or sunrise. There is no greater expression of the divinity of creation than nature deciding to be merciful.
September 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
leahart.bsky.social
New art: A smaller oil painting on panel "Sigil of the Heron" 6x8".

Occasionally I take little breaks from my bigger, more realist work, to do these. They're rooted in the style of linework found in Pictish carvings, lots of swooshing lines and spirals, but have more detailed/complexity
Sigil of the Heron: A stylized oil painting of a blue heron. The heron is depicted with a series of sweeping curved lines and swirl patterns as is the simplified foreground of a wave and plants. Around the outer edge, a darker blue border contains more linework that hint at flowing waves.
August 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
leahart.bsky.social
"Penitent II" 9x12 oil painting on board ($450 USD). The second in a series of paintings mourning the effects of climate change and increasing waves of extinctions.

Open edition art prints will be available in the near future.
Penitent II: An oil painting of a young woman wearing a blue robe edged in gold holding her left hand up in a sign of blessing. From her hand a golden medallion showing a whale hangs from strands of barbed wire looped around her fingers. Behind the figure, a dark sea stretches to the horizon with crashing waves under a darkened sky. A golden saintly halo rings the figure’s head with a series of golden whales arranged around its circumference.
August 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
leahart.bsky.social
New art: "Penitent I" (9x12 Oil paint on board $450). Prints coming soonish.
Penitent I: An oil painting of a young woman, nude except for a red shawl loosely drawn around her shoulders standing visible from her arms upwards. Her hands are clasped in prayer, holding a prayer medallion by a string of barbed wire wrapped around both hands. The medallion is gold and shows a polar bear looking out at the viewer. The figure’s head is ringed with a saintly halo of gold, within which a series of walking polar bears are depicted in profile view. The figure stands on a tundra landscape with mountains in the background under a blue sky.
June 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
leahart.bsky.social
New art - "Fate's Bargain" an 18x24 inch oil painting on a cradled wood panel. Prints will be available soonish, but supply costs have- of course- gone up. So there might be a little bit of a delay.
Fate’s Bargain: An oil painting depicting a woman in a white dress seated on an ornate wooden throne with her hand extended towards the viewer. The wooden chair is upholstered in golden fabric and the wooden arms of the chair feature carved wooden owls. The figure is seated in between two sections of short rock wall fragments bathed in orange/yellow light that have red cave paintings on them.The cave paintings depict horned deer or stags standing over dead figures. Behind the wall, the blue/green landscape stretches to a horizon under the fading light of a setting sun and a darkening sky
April 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
leahart.bsky.social
Hi #PortfolioDay

I'm Leah, an oil painter based in Madison WI working in a dark art or imaginative realist style.

Website link page here if you're curious: www.leahmacleod.art/link-in-bio/
Divine Mercy: An oil painting depicting an owl perched on a large round copper disk. The disk shows a relief carving of a curving pictish style tree whose upper branches curl in on themselves to form the suggestion of a heart. Beneath the owl and disk, two rabbits sit comfortably on a twilight blue-green ground surrounded by grass. Behind the owl in the background a darkened blueish forest sits beneath a brilliant sunset or sunrise. There is no greater expression of the divinity of creation than nature deciding to be merciful. Messenger: An oil painting depicting a white stag with gleaming antlers standing on a dark green landscape under a pale blue sky. The stag fills most of the image and stares directly at the viewer. White stags are often messengers from the spirit world. Sometimes they come as good omens and sometimes as a warning- It’s up to you to know which. Cantica of Deep Time: An oil painting depicting: A cold blue seascape under a blue green cloudy sky. In the water float four old long case styled grandfather clocks that lack hands on their clock faces. A younger woman with pale skin wearing a white dress, stands on top of the clock closest to the viewer and is in the process of stepping off into the water. In arched spandrels on the top of the painting a pod of whales float in parallel to each other as if they are sleeping within deep blue water. A Cantica- sometimes called a canticle- is a religious song or chant.
April 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
leahart.bsky.social
What perfect safety and efficiency looks like (presumably after taking an entire box of benadryl)
A massive concrete tx highway with an absolutely insane number of lanes, and cars. An abomination before every god and an insult to act scrap of divinity that exists in human kind.
April 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
leahart.bsky.social
Heyyy if you'd like some occult imaginative realist art in your life- but don't have original oil painting money just lying around- I have open edition prints in my etsy shop www.etsy.com/shop/LeahMacLeodFineArt (or DM me too)

5x7 are $10
9x12 are $30

(original oil paintings available via email)
Card with: the words LeahMacLeod.Art, Prints & Mini Prints Available and LeahMacLeodFineArt.Etsy.Com. Surrounding the words are four mini prints of various paintings and the pictish style crow and tree logo of Leah MacLeod.
March 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
leahart.bsky.social
New painting! "Divine Mercy" 9x12 oil on board. ($450usd) There is no greater expression of the divinity of creation than nature deciding to be merciful.

This painting is also distinguished from the rest of my art by not being 90% blue pigments by volume lolol.
Divine Mercy: An oil painting depicting an owl perched on a large round copper disk. The disk shows a relief carving of a curving pictish style tree whose upper branches curl in on themselves to form the suggestion of a heart. Beneath the owl and disk, two rabbits sit comfortably on a twilight blue-green ground surrounded by grass. Behind the owl in the background a darkened blueish forest sits beneath a brilliant sunset or sunrise.
February 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
leahart.bsky.social
"Messenger" 18x24 oil on panel.
(but smaller prints are available)
Messenger: An oil painting depicting a white stag with gleaming antlers standing on a dark green landscape under a pale blue sky. The stag fills most of the image and stares directly at the viewer. White stags are often messengers from the spirit world. Sometimes they come as good omens and sometimes as a warning- It’s up to you to know which.
February 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
leahart.bsky.social
I write art statements like "I create artifacts for the present, that connect the viewer to the past, in order to face an uncertain future"

Bc: "I'm trying to rip open the fabric of an exploitative present to open a doorway for an ancient energy to kill your TV" might scare the nice normal ppl
February 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
leahart.bsky.social
The art prints for this painting came in and ended up looking incredible. Having your omens delivered via owl is great, but I prefer mine to come via the traditional mystical white stag.

I have both 5x7 mini prints and larger 9x12 size prints on my studio etsy page www.etsy.com/shop/LeahMac...
Messenger: An oil painting depicting a white stag with gleaming antlers standing on a dark green landscape under a pale blue sky. The stag fills most of the image and stares directly at the viewer. White stags are often messengers from the spirit world. Sometimes they come as good omens and sometimes as a warning- It’s up to you to know which. A picture of a 9x12 print on paper of an oil painting depicting a white stag with gleaming antlers standing on a dark green landscape under a pale blue sky. The image is bordered by a white 1/2 inch border. Close up of a print of a white stag. You can see the body of the stag with fur made up of warm colored white and yellow brush strokes that blend together to create a glowing appearance.
February 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
leahart.bsky.social
If you see this, post something RED 🎈

"Red" 9x12 oil on panel, from 2022.
Red: Oil painting. A girl wears a wolf's head over her own head leaving only the bottom of her face visible. The wolf's head merges into a red cloak. It is ambiguous whether or not the red cloak is stained with blood or just red. The phases of the moon surround her head in a golden circle.
February 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
leahart.bsky.social
Had fun at the art show on Weds & met a lot of cool ppl- despite the 7 inches of snow. WI doesn't let a little thing like a storm dropping a half foot of snow keep them from shows.

I still have plenty of prints, so let me know if you're interested or check out www.etsy.com/shop/LeahMacLeodFineArt
A small cafe table sits in soft warm lighting with a selection of prints laid out on it. A black banner hangs over the table depicting a golden swirled crow design with the name MacLeod across the top.
February 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
leahart.bsky.social
"Fledgling" in progress art process from sketch to finished 9x12 oil painting. I paint in thin layers and glazes on a wood support, which allows the light to bounce warmth up through the finished work.
February 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
leahart.bsky.social
Ran the gauntlet of etsy uploading to update my studio print store with both 9x12 inch and 5x7 inch prints. So if you're in the mood for dark, surreal, occult-ish witchy art then you're in luck!

etsy.com/shop/LeahMac...
An oil painting showing a young woman in a gold collared tunic holding a black cat on her lap. In the background a fall landscape stretches to the horizon beneath a blue sky. There is a framing element around the edges of the painting that forms an arch above the figure with two smaller triangular paintings in either corner. In the upper left corner, a summer landscape of green foliage and water sits under a blue sky. In the upper right corner, a winter landscape of snow and snow covered trees stretches back to mountains that sit under a dark night sky. Cantica of Deep Time - An oil painting depicting: A cold blue seascape under a blue green cloudy sky. In the water float four old long case styled grandfather clocks that lack hands on their clock faces. A younger woman with pale skin wearing a white dress, stands on top of the clock closest to the viewer and is in the process of stepping off into the water. In arched spandrels on the top of the painting a pod of whales float in parallel to each other as if they are sleeping within deep blue water. A Cantica- sometimes called a canticle- is a religious song or chant. Fledgling: An oil painting depicting: A young girl wearing a light blue dress with a unicorn embroidered on the front sits holding a young crow in her lap. The landscape behind her depicts a twilight sky with pale golden fields and a dilapidated church. The middle ground features a blue river and the near bank is filled with tangled weeds. Guardian of Avalon: A depiction of an original oil painting. A blue, magical scene of a lake against a misty forest. A woman wearing a white dress rises from the water, her dress and figure merging seamlessly into the lake. She holds a sword in her hands and looks to the left. A ribbon of blue green semi-transparent spirits snakes back and forth behind her.
February 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
leahart.bsky.social
QRP with your wings #art!

"Pictish Dreams" 9x12 oil on board (2024)
An oil painting showing a woman in a white dress hovers within a golden red graphic frame, black crow’s wings spread outward from the woman to the edge of the painting. She hovers above a green landscape with hills and water in the distance. In the foreground beneath the woman, there is a megalithic stone circle. At either corner of the painted graphic framing element are two circles containing pictish crow designs. In the center bottom is a circle containing a stylized “L”.
February 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
leahart.bsky.social
If you see this, quote with your Night/ #Darkart
"Cantica of Deep Time" 18x24 oil paint on panel
Cantica of Deep Time: An oil painting depicting: A cold blue seascape under a blue green cloudy sky. In the water float four old long case styled grandfather clocks that lack hands on their clock faces. A younger woman with pale skin wearing a white dress, stands on top of the clock closest to the viewer and is in the process of stepping off into the water. In arched spandrels on the top of the painting a pod of whales float in parallel to each other as if they are sleeping within deep blue water. A Cantica- sometimes called a canticle- is a religious song or chant.
February 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
leahart.bsky.social
A new painting "Messenger" 18x24" oil paint on panel.

The white stag is often a messenger. Sometimes it comes as a good omen and sometimes simply as a good warning- it's up to you to figure out which.

This will be available as an art print soon.
Messenger: An oil painting depicting a white stag with gleaming antlers standing on a dark green landscape under a pale blue sky. The stag fills most of the image and stares directly at the viewer. White stags are often messengers from the spirit world. Sometimes they come as good omens and sometimes as a warning- It’s up to you to know which.
January 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
leahart.bsky.social
You can tell I have a fever bc I'm med posting all over the art account hahaha. Here's some art to make up for it-

"Guardian of Avalon" 9x12 oil painting on panel (available as the original or prints link in profile)
Guardian of Avalon: A depiction of an original oil painting. A blue, magical scene of a lake against a misty forest. A woman wearing a white dress rises from the water, her dress and figure merging seamlessly into the lake. She holds a sword in her hands and looks to the left. A ribbon of blue green semi-transparent spirits snakes back and forth behind her.
January 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
leahart.bsky.social
"Cantica of Deep Time" 18x24" oil paint on cradled board.

New work that will very shortly, probably, almost certainly, end up as a print. But likely sometime in January if I had to guess.

(A cantica, sometimes also called a canticle, is a chant or religious song)
Cantica of Deep Time: An oil painting depicting: A cold blue seascape under a blue green cloudy sky. In the water float four old long case styled grandfather clocks that lack hands on their clock faces. A younger woman with pale skin wearing a white dress, stands on top of the clock closest to the viewer and is in the process of stepping off into the water. In arched spandrels on the top of the painting a pod of whales float in parallel to each other as if they are sleeping within deep blue water. A Cantica- sometimes called a canticle- is a religious song or chant.
December 28, 2024 at 6:32 PM
leahart.bsky.social
If you ever wonder what I'm doing in meetings or on phone/zoom calls-

Prob not a shock tbh.

#art #artist
Pen and ink drawing of a rabbit in medieval knight's armor with a sword and spear. The spear has a curling banner that reads "Buy Art". A pen and ink drawing in a wood cut style of a goat with the words "Decorate Deliciously" around it.
November 30, 2024 at 8:36 PM
leahart.bsky.social
New painting! "Fledgling" 9x12 oil on board.
Prints will be coming soon!
Fledgling: An oil painting depicting: A young girl wearing a light blue dress with a unicorn embroidered on the front sits holding a young crow in her lap. The landscape behind her depicts a twilight sky with pale golden fields and a dilapidated church. The middle ground features a blue river and the near bank is filled with tangled weeds.
November 15, 2024 at 6:27 PM