Vancouver
artist Arleigh Wood combines a love of rich textures and surfaces with a
minimalist aesthetic. Encaustic, acrylics, oils, collage, etching on metal
and found objects are unified in multi-layered compositions. She uses simplified
images of such symbols as crows, circles, bamboo and feathers -- literal
extensions of her East Side environment -- to communicate her interest in
the spiritual underpinnings of urban life. The pictures are manipulated
in ways that emphasize contemplation and meditation.
Arleigh Wood studied at Concordia University in Montreal and the University
of Hertfordshire in St Albans UK, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts
with Honours. Wood is represented by White Bird Gallery and Heidi McBride
Gallery in Oregon, Canvas Gallery and Art Interiors in Toronto, Ontario,
and The Lounge Collection in Tofino, BC. Wood works full time at her Parker
Street Studio in Vancouver.
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