Leopi Lein Nicola Sanderson-Edmunds -Painter
signature: Leopi Nicola
Painter, Midwife/Healer/Teacher, Mother
BA in studio painting and psychology, Art therapy concentration
Born in Cambridge, England
Living spaces: London, Germany, Cambridge, MA, Hollywood, CA,
Big Sur, CA, Santa Fe, NM, New Orleans, LA, Bay Area, CA.
European and American citizenship, Father Australian, filmmaker, painter, poet. Mother German, modern ballet dancer Fraternal twin, jeweler, artist.

Influences:
My art school was at home with my father and mother,  both artists, and my community of people surrounding us throughout my life, all creative and visionary, artists, inventors, thinkers, kind anarchists and philosophers.
Other influences: Dance, movement, Ortho-Bionomy a form of sensitive structural body work and a way of life, music and last, but not least, my largest influence has been being allowed to witness the deeply loving and primal human experience of childbirth within the sanctuary of home. Here is where I was first inspired to paint the expression and union of the body and soul and The Passage Way series paintings that represent the Sacred Feminine and the Sacred Masculine.
Painters: Odilon Redon, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Giotto, Wassily Kandinsky,
Igor Tarkovsky and Sergei Paradjanov, Russian icons and the Symbolist painters.

THE SACRED FEMININE AND THE SACRED MASCULINE

The Passage Way Series
Description: 26 Large figurative paintings each exploring the contrast and vibrancy of the two opposing colors of blues and red/oranges.
Life size and Larger than life, so that they may relate to us through their body to our body, as if we are only a thin membrane of separation apart. We are watching them as they are watching us.
They watch within a center of stillness while perhaps, a performance of a dance or a peace offering occurs.

Technique:
the medium is Golden acrylic paint.
Copper leaf
Each painting has many layers of color beginning with one solid base of color. Most paintings take about one to three months to complete.

Blue Spectrum:
Represents the masculine tone, grandfather, father, son. Humanity.
Water, the Moon and Mercury, the higher mind, the potential mind, philosophy, spirituality, The Hermit, Inner life, Alchemy, silver. fluidity, storms, peace and war. No death. Love and Mercy. Blue is science.

Orange Spectrum:
Represents the feminine tone, Grandmother, mother, daughter.
the Sun, Fire, rich earth, transformation, creation, alchemy too, gold, courage, action, stillness and being, regeneration, energy, nurturing, destroying, birth and death. Love and Compassion.

Color may also be seen (and heard) as musical tones and rhythms which support dance postures and meditations.
The orange and blue is the dynamic force that makes everything hum, purr and throb. The Ying-Yang. Perfect balance, in each of us and all around us.
Together they grow green.
Hands and Feet are accentuated, representing the importance of them as tools for us to experience life, love and action upon earth.

Rose Spectrum:
Rose represents the embodiment of Spiritual and earthly Passion and all of its expressions and tones, such as ecstasy, tenderness, sensuality, sexuality, deep gratitude, Love, Mercy, desire, vulnerability, surrender and the experience of intimacy with self and others. Passion expands the realm of experience and the experience is always Now. Rose comes as a quiet, intoxicating secret force from the warm breath of Life. Our Senses, respiration, heartbeat, heart. Rose is the sensation of touch through the senses of the body and the heart.

Subject:
The paintings represent the timeless nature of the human spirit, pure and exalted. Simple. Transcending identifications of race, culture, civilization or timeline.

The paintings are The Family, the Human Tribe.
Paintings to harmonize and calm the soul. During a difficult time of war, technology and materialism, we slowly forget our humanity and our connectedness amongst one another.

The truth is our oneness to all living beings.



In Gratitude to all of the Mothers, Fathers and Children for the abundance of inspiration we have shared.