'Aura' by Ludi Leiva
'Aura'
38 x 28 cm
Gouache and Oil Pastel on 250gsm Paper
2025
£450
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Ludi Leiva (b. 1990) is a Canadian-American visual artist of Guatemalan and Slovak heritage working across drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her practice is a contemplative dialogue between landscape, body, and memory, exploring states of liminality and belonging through an interplay of figuration and abstraction. She has exhibited work in New York City, Chicago, Stockholm, London, and Berlin, and received awards and grants including from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Currently studying a one-year drawing programme at The Royal Drawing School, Ludi lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. I approach my work as a spiritual act, a way to transmute my subconscious into physical form. Working in layers with oil pastel, oil bar, charcoal, acrylic, oil, and monotype techniques, I build richly textured surfaces where abstraction and figuration converge. Through intuitive mark-making and colouration, my work draws inspiration from the mountain landscapes of my childhood and my family's ancestral homelands, merging human figures with abstract natural forms. This practice becomes a way to investigate my mixed cultural identity and diasporic experience. By physically combining media and approaches through embodied practice and ritualistic repetition, I begin to chart new territories of understanding.
'Aura'
38 x 28 cm
Gouache and Oil Pastel on 250gsm Paper
2025
£450
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Ludi Leiva (b. 1990) is a Canadian-American visual artist of Guatemalan and Slovak heritage working across drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her practice is a contemplative dialogue between landscape, body, and memory, exploring states of liminality and belonging through an interplay of figuration and abstraction. She has exhibited work in New York City, Chicago, Stockholm, London, and Berlin, and received awards and grants including from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Currently studying a one-year drawing programme at The Royal Drawing School, Ludi lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. I approach my work as a spiritual act, a way to transmute my subconscious into physical form. Working in layers with oil pastel, oil bar, charcoal, acrylic, oil, and monotype techniques, I build richly textured surfaces where abstraction and figuration converge. Through intuitive mark-making and colouration, my work draws inspiration from the mountain landscapes of my childhood and my family's ancestral homelands, merging human figures with abstract natural forms. This practice becomes a way to investigate my mixed cultural identity and diasporic experience. By physically combining media and approaches through embodied practice and ritualistic repetition, I begin to chart new territories of understanding.
'Aura'
38 x 28 cm
Gouache and Oil Pastel on 250gsm Paper
2025
£450
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Ludi Leiva (b. 1990) is a Canadian-American visual artist of Guatemalan and Slovak heritage working across drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her practice is a contemplative dialogue between landscape, body, and memory, exploring states of liminality and belonging through an interplay of figuration and abstraction. She has exhibited work in New York City, Chicago, Stockholm, London, and Berlin, and received awards and grants including from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Currently studying a one-year drawing programme at The Royal Drawing School, Ludi lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. I approach my work as a spiritual act, a way to transmute my subconscious into physical form. Working in layers with oil pastel, oil bar, charcoal, acrylic, oil, and monotype techniques, I build richly textured surfaces where abstraction and figuration converge. Through intuitive mark-making and colouration, my work draws inspiration from the mountain landscapes of my childhood and my family's ancestral homelands, merging human figures with abstract natural forms. This practice becomes a way to investigate my mixed cultural identity and diasporic experience. By physically combining media and approaches through embodied practice and ritualistic repetition, I begin to chart new territories of understanding.