Some Bring Gifts

Whorls

Lost and Found

Foraged

Scorched

Leaves

Pine Needles

Since childhood I’ve wanted to be both artist and naturalist. I grew up on a river bank in Northwest Indiana, drawing, painting, chasing fireflies, collecting healing plants, and watching snapping turtle lay their eggs every spring, until they didn’t anymore. This sort of fragile and complicated interrelationship with the wild world has been a lifelong fascination.

Through these bodies of work,  I’m deeply looking and listening, leaning in to change, making with what’s at hand, with forces that be.

Shift: Recent Work by Leah Gauthier, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 2015

Bearing Fruit: Art at the Intersection of Human and Vegetable, Maine Farmland Trust Gallery, 2015

Twelve Nights, Boston  Sculptors Gallery, 2014