My painting, printmaking and mixed media works are an exploration of an original, wordless connection to the natural world.

I find poetry in combining familiar and invented symbols in ways that surprise and awaken a sense of mystery and wonder. These intuitive line drawings of simple symbols, shapes and figures are layered into fields of color creating a dialogue and dance between inner and outer worlds, exploring the area between objective and subjective experience, always pointing towards a more unified understanding.

This understanding winds its way through a territory of perceived opposites, whether they are called logic and intuition, realism and abstraction, order and chaos, or control and abandon. The self-organizing intelligence underlying all things, chaos seeking order, and the order in chaos, is a thematic thread; my work is a contemplation of how divergent elements cooperate, converse and ultimately inspire.

My work has been widely exhibited throughout the Bay Area, California and Canada. I have a passion for the role art can play in building strong communities. This has led to several large public art and educational projects including glass & tile commissions, the Sanchez Community Mural, and the founding and development of the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica.

Studio 14 at Sanchez Art Center

1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, Ca. 94044

(650) 359-2073

andrewleone@earthlink.net

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