Leslie Wood – Whimsy & Wonder: A Journey Through Color
April 30 - July 12
Third Floor West Gallery
This exhibition round includes works provided by Leslie Wood which will be on view in the Third Floor West Gallery from April 30 – July 12, 2025. Lowe Mill A&E invites patrons and art lovers to join us for Open Studio Night, a building-wide experience when our over 150 studios will be open to the public. The evening also includes receptions for all seven of our gallery spaces. This series gives the public a chance to meet and interact with visiting artists and discuss their work as it is on display and available for purchase. Come out, enjoy a pleasant evening, and maybe you’ll find that special piece of art that speaks to you! The Open Studio Night reception is Saturday, July 12 from 5-7 pm.
About the exhibit:
My work is a reflection of emotions, moods, and life moments—translated onto canvas and journal pages through bold, saturated color and whimsical forms. This exhibit is an exploration of playful curiosity and deep feeling, where abstraction and character-driven narratives coexist.
In my abstract pieces, I explore the raw language of color, resisting the urge to define form and instead allowing emotion to dictate movement. These works are an exercise in letting go, trusting intuition, and embracing the unexpected.
The monsters, on the other hand, are my way of personifying feelings—quirky, imperfect beings that carry stories within them. Their origins in upcycled materials reflect my commitment to sustainability and my belief that even discarded things hold creative potential.
Together, these works serve as a visual journal—each piece a marker of time, energy, and experience. They invite the viewer to lose themselves in color, to see stories in the abstract, and to embrace both the playful and profound within their own imagination.
About the artist:
Leslie Wood is a mixed media artist from Lacey’s Spring, Alabama. With a background in aerospace engineering, she later pursued art, studying photography, sculpture, and pain.ng at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Blending reality and fantasy, her work often begins in art journals before moving to canvas. She is a regular featured artist in Stampington’s ART Journaling magazine and teaches art journaling workshops online and at the Huntsville Museum of Art. Leslie also serves as the Art Director of Expressions for the mental health nonprofit Little Orange Fish, using the arts to foster storytelling and self-expression.