Solange Leon

Art, Space, Movement, Sustainability, Morer & More.

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‘Feminisms’ - Cyanotype on watercolour paper 14 x 20 cms. To the incredibly women in my life that against all odds and the current dystopian current flavours never fail to be there for me (bit gushy but it s what the print made think of- you are all here with me). I know there is a safe shore somewhere where we will eventually land. In the meantime, thanks for steading my boat, making me smile, and inking my skies and oceans blue. #movement #feminine #feminism #balance #equality #interdependence #relations #complexities #systemsthinking #sustainabledesign #art #metaart #contemporaryfineart #contemporaryart #solangeleoniriarte #connections #continuity #artcontemporain #azul #bleu #blau #arte #flux #iblueyou (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQyZ9ypHedQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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‘Modern Times’ - mixed media on watercolour paper 14 x 21 cms- small! I enjoy changing scale, subject and media - say, for example, much more than dealing with flush flooding in the kitchen this morning.... This year my artwork seems to be in a permanent state of flux. I m experimenting all the time. I have inked up the sun in this little window, like the rain out there. May be it is a door, and not a window this time? I feel I could walk through it. In fact I might do just that.... it looks much brighter beyond- part of the postathingything every other day when you remember nominated by my talented friend @ellaberthoud.paintings - Since I can now annoy someone else whose work and person I love too I nominate @yuditakath whom I share a love for life, Virginia and art and everythingness- same sky only far across the oceans.... #art #abstractart #moderntimes #time #sustainabledesign #wheredoesthetimego #painting #contemporaryart #contemporaryfineart #metaart #complexities #unseeing #opacity #resistance #sustainsbility #arte #solangeleoniriarte #peinture #arteabstracto #pintura #lightscape #doors #movimiento #britishsummer #layers #light #rain #exploratoryart #experimental (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQoZ3OWHpkb/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The spectacularly talented @ellaberthoud.paintings asked me to join this postathingeverydaything. I m not very good at those but I love her and she is a real inspiration so... here s what I did today. ‘Drenched’, our summer days minus the sunny bits. Mixed media on watercolour paper 219 x420 mm. The counterpoint expression made me realise how controlled and gentle the work I ve been engaged with recently is, so back to brush brutal was fun and somewhat liberating, making light of the rain rain rain. Please make it go away? #rain #blue #brush #art #embodiment #complexities #play #summerrain #britishsummer #arte #tinta #abstract #abstracto #contemporaryart #contemporaryfineart #solangeleoniriarte #lluvia #azul #movimento #movement #counterpoint #pleue #circlesandlines (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQjtt01H3Zu/?utm_medium=tumblr

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It might sound silly but- with family and my closest friends we have a habit of saying ‘I blue you’ or ‘I blau you’, or simply ‘Azuuuuuul’. Not that this sprang from that, but when it all comes together it feels right and like it couldn’t be anything else... life is a continual conspiracy it seems- portrayed here next to my love of lemon and a turmeric print which I m testing near the light from the studio window. Framed by the best @thomasrainsfordframing and perfectly named by master of all words and life liver extraordinaire @h_o_l_l_y_dawson, ‘My Windows’ is fittingly part of a series made during the lockdowns. These windows look within... #entanglement #sustainabledesign #complexities #distinctlyindistinct #art #movement #blue #legrandbleu #azul #bleu #contemporaryart #contemporaryfineart #achemistofshadows #windows #duration #time #cronos #tiempo #temps #sundials #print #movimiento #grabado #solangeleoniriarte #circlesandlines #relationism #ontologicalcomplexities #pluralism #balance #perpetuallyshifting (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQeMjvOHCwI/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Everybody’s Twenty One Minutes- That is what you are looking at. It s been a very intense few days alone in the studio working day and night to let my body and brain remember how I did these last summer. The process is slow, then ridiculously fast- to make these is a labour of love- undisrupted precise mixtures of brush, shake, hours of hot iron- I hate ironing at the best times- dance a little, and stargazing while waiting for it all to dry. Then you do it all over again. And naturally rising with the first lights again to print. I get absurdly nervous before I start- like when I used to race the tracks, there is no going back. You can’t pause time- in sunlight form- so there are no breaks, no tea, nor re takes, nor space for hesitation- each piece is an irreversible time representation in movement. It s as rewarding as exhausting. This one will be developing for another 24 hours till it reaches its ‘final’ form. Cyanotypes are archival material but if they fade with sunlight, you can put them to sleep in a quiet dark hiding place, sing them a song, and they come back to their Prussian blue initial days of glory. Time is relative- we live in an abstract past present future construct- but there is an unforgiving aspect of the work that captures my imagination, and thus my heart. Rain rain rain thank you, a forced few days to write and rest. Helios we shall meet again for another dance soon enough... if the weather decides to be summer like any time soon... #cyanotype #movement #sustainabledesign #entanglement #opacity #choreography #time #impermanence #plurality #systemsthinking #complexities #art #contemporaryart #printing #metaart #arte #azul #bleu #blue #prussianblue #berlinblue #blueprint #solangeleoniriarte #sun #sol #studio #contemporaryfineart #artecontemporaneo #artcontemporain (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQMTo9AH1DH/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Inti. It only took a whole week and it was not working. Some days it s hard to stay and insist when work is resisting you in all sorts of manner. I nearly threw my toys out of the pram many times today. Still... sandalwood seems to always surprise me, as does my unreasonable obstinacy. #detail #art #brush #print #vanishing #impermanence #sandalwood #fineart #contemporaryfineart #sustainabledesign #sun #inti #helios #pink #explore #light #naturalpigments #time #movement #indistinctborders #solangeleoniriarte #arte #artecontemporaneo #pigmentos #madera https://www.instagram.com/p/CQCCwopHPwn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I m guessing this one is bright enough eh? Just in time for sun to keep shining in the studio now he s decided to go some other hot place on the globe. What was I thinking doing a weather collaboration when one is living in the land of Turner’s capricious clouds? The blue background was accidental but it makes it ziiiiing and siiiiing. Shall I mount it in one? No clouds in my inside studio sky. Working with natural pigments is time consuming, patience pushing to exasperating levels- it s like watching a clock tick, a kettle boil- you get it- and control freak hair pulling, they have their own ideas on their personality developing for days to the final result. An excellent colour wave to find myself being tossed around by. I suspect my friend @henrywre sent it this way. Happy Sunday! #prints #sun #capriciousclouds #weathercollaboration #sustainabledesign #impermanence ##learning #dyes #movement #fleetingpermanence #time #duration #art #fineart #colouralchemy #colour #solsundials #wave #colourspectrum @ma_sustainable_design_brighton (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPyN64wnopi/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Subtle yet uncontrolled. My kind of fun in the sun. I would have never guessed I d be working in abstract, not colour. #surprise #solaretching #naturaldyes #dyes #exploration #entanglement #movement #resist #surrender #sun #choreography #complexities #green #solangeleoniriarte #abstract (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlHBZiH5TL/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Prompted by ‘Blink’, a book that wonderful @estbest01 gave me to read when I saw her last, I m back pondering about our conscious decision making skills and intuition. So here are my round toes and ‘Wicked Problems, Wicked Possibilities’- the originals for an animated giff which instagram doesn’t like much alas, based on poster art and the infinite need to solve and resolve the just solved resolution, adapt, change. Start again. You solve one problem and another arises, you solve a problem for one and in doing so, create a problem for Simeón else. Yet all these impossible complexity allows for broader understanding of shifting perspectives- not just others but also our own- and interconnectedness if you allow yourself to see it. The piece also included a closed eye, as means to reflect in that we all have a blind spot. We blink and I see and just imagine if the entire world had changed in that brief second. It can all change in that blink of an eye. The work was part of a webinar with fantastic designers and artists from the RaM research group @soad_brighton @slucym @ben_peppiatt which I was lucky to take part in last summer. It s all perpetually changing. My grandfather used to say ‘only fools don’t ever change their mind’. Happy Sunday! #wickedproblems #wickedproblemsolving #cybernetics #sustainabledesign #art #posterart #perpetualshifting #interconnectedness #systemsthinking #blackandwhite #ink #diseñosustentable #arte #blink #intheblinkofaneye https://www.instagram.com/p/COqstX5Ha2-/?igshid=1rkcoyyq0vcy7

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‘The Waves’ - charcoal conte and acrylic paint on watercolour paper. I am looking for something only I m not sure what - this piece didn’t talk to me for ages. It just sat silent and sulking on the wall asking me to do something. But I had no idea what it wanted so I walked passed it for weeks saying ‘sorry’. It is only after finishing Virginia Woolf’s book with this title that I let it take me and move move move- the book is easily one of the best and most beautiful pieces I have read- and I mean, EVER. It is hard to let go of control but surrendering is often the only thing you can do when you don’t know what, to do. Find your way along the way kind of. I am still lost in notions of fragmentation, fracture and togetherness- resist and surrender both #thewaves #virginiawoolf #virginiawoolfthewaves #olas #movement #movimiento #painting #abstract #vagues #abstractart #pintura #contemporaryart #contemporaryfineart #arte #peinture #study #solangeleoniriarte #gold #goldwaves #artecontemporaneo (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNcZLsvHfUw/?igshid=1620wsynccs5v

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Fun teaching (even) online- I love my students, they give me as good as they get! Drawing is one of the greatest pleasures of my life - it can also be battling alas- but the rectangular aspect of adapting to a screen reality is hard. I hope we ll be able to loose sight of our faces in the muddle of it all soon. In the meanwhile, here s a graphite reflection. #drawing #graphitedrawing #graphite #sketching #teaching #online #reflection #mirrors #connection #art #bloodyzoom #dibujo #retrato #self #dessin #dibujo #grafito #art #arte #bosquejo (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJCq9AHTBq/?igshid=cd57b75jv6pt

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One can measure the passing of the seasons by how close to you the cat will sleep at night. Reassuringly, it is warm enough that he is at a cautious non asphyxiating distance- spring is springing. My dog in the other hand will always push against you his strong and slender fast frame, with some luck, hard enough to push you off the bed. But he can’t climb the steep step ladder to my ‘room’ -I say room but it is no such thing- perched at the top of this beautiful home with no doors that shelters me in its winged eaves up above, where I fall asleep to the sound of the rain amplified by the closeness to the dripping night sky above. Tomorrow I shall clean these wings or else we will drown in dust. It s time to listen to the renewing out there and enjoy the humans we have the freedom to meet outdoors on Monday. I miss our see you tomorrow’s. And talking of wings, late tonight I sent my mum this drawing of my hands. My studio is littered with limbs. To which she replied- ‘Your hands? Your wings...’ I love my mum. She is an incredible artist. I wish these wings could carry me across to see her. #wings #drawing #art #across #hands #family #dibujo #anatomia #anatomy #limbs #abscence #ausencia #flyacross #fly #vuelo #saudage #spleen (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM3WQlBn1st/?igshid=m0a80evhdvjh

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Happy international women’s day. There is much to be done in the world of art, architecture, and eeeeeeeverywhere quite frankly, in view of evident systemic inequality and discrimination. I believe most people beyond gender have experienced it in one form or another in this world we make. We can’t however, not recognise that we have to even out the path of opportunities for a future female which rings truly fair, especially given the negative impact on progress due to gender roles heightened by the pandemic. I hope we can continue to share the wish to explore experience think feel inspire and move towards a more just and free tomorrow with solidarity, and care. Hang on, let s make it TODAY! Photo by talented photographer @wmatthewsstroud back in the happy days of sharing a studio with kick ass female artist and great friend whom I much admire @sarahshawpainting #femaleartist #worldwomensday #fairfutures #art #contemporaryfineart architecture #sustainabledesign #equality #equalityanddiversity #balance #zeitgeist #diainternacionaldelamujer #arte #arquitectura #feminisms #inclusivearts #artequality #feminism (at Kemptown, Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMKJVFqnFu6/?igshid=h3p2ptth7rcs

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ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE ‘There is no satisfaction at any point any time, there is only divine quest, unrest and dissatisfaction that keeps us marching, and keep us more alive than the others’ - words by Martha Graham, who inspired this particular piece and movement. Midmoon Dance’ 2021 Acrylic ink and leaping about on Arches watercolour paper 23 x 38.5 cms Price £200. Please DM (message) to purchase. •••••••••••• Available as part of @matthewburrowsstudio generous initiative to offer work at accessible prices to keep the wolves from the door and help others do the same. ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE is a generous culture and dynamic economy in support of artists and makers.  The concept is a simple one, post images of your work to sell for NO MORE (can be less) than $200 (£200, €200, A$300, C$300, ¥20000) each (not including shipping.) Anyone can then buy the work. Every time you reach $1000 (A$1500, C$1500, ¥100,000) of sales you pledge to buy another artist/s work for $200. (A$300, C$300, ¥20000). #artistsupportpledge #livegenerously #buyartonline #agenerousculture #culture #art #contemporaryart #generosityisinfectious #neweconomy #supportartists #savingcultures #connection #movement #emergence #entanglement #dance #marthagraham #grahamtechnique #move #dance #balance #spring #danza #movimiento #solangeleoniriarte #sustainablemovement #zeigeist (at Kemptown, Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFJLAJnAgR/?igshid=x4fepgjwopn9

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ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE ‘Everything was forever until it was no more’ ‘Flux !’ 2021 part of the @yuditakath series - Acrylic ink and leaping about on Arches watercolour paper 23 x 38.5 cms Price £200 Please DM (message) to purchase. •••••••••••• Available as part of @matthewburrowsstudio generous initiative to offer work at accessible prices to keep the wolves from the door and help others do the same. ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE is a generous culture and dynamic economy in support of artists and makers.  The concept is a simple one, post images of your work to sell for NO MORE (can be less) than $200 (£200, €200, A$300, C$300, ¥20000) each (not including shipping.) Anyone can then buy the work. Every time you reach $1000 (A$1500, C$1500, ¥100,000) of sales you pledge to buy another artist/s work for $200. (A$300, C$300, ¥20000). #artistsupportpledge #livegenerously #buyartonline #agenerousculture #culture #art #contemporaryart #generosityisinfectious #neweconomy #supportartists #savingcultures #connection #movement #emergence #entanglement #dance #wildrumpus #wild #move #dance #balance #spring #danza #movimiento #solangeleoniriarte #sustainablemovement #zeigeist (at Kemptown, Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMAAl-JnkEM/?igshid=letzjpgohwy9

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ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE I m still firmly moving with the waves dancers so generously create for us and that are so very missed. ‘Merce I’ 2021 Acrylic ink and leaping about on watercolour paper 29.7 x 42 cms Price £200 Please DM (message) to purchase. •••••••••••• Available as part of @matthewburrowsstudio generous initiative to offer work at accessible prices to keep the wolves from the door and help others do the same. ARTIST SUPPORT PLEDGE is a generous culture and dynamic economy in support of artists and makers.  The concept is a simple one, post images of your work to sell for NO MORE (can be less) than $200 (£200, €200, A$300, C$300, ¥20000) each (not including shipping.) Anyone can then buy the work. Every time you reach $1000 (A$1500, C$1500, ¥100,000) of sales you pledge to buy another artist/s work for $200. (A$300, C$300, ¥20000). #artistsupportpledge #livegenerously #buyartonline #agenerousculture #culture #art #contemporaryart #generosityisinfectious #neweconomy #supportartists #savingcultures #connection #movement #emergence #entanglement #dance #wildrumpus #wild #move #dance #balance #spring #danza #movimiento #solangeleoniriarte #sustainablemovement #zeigeist (at Kemptown, Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL7Ee9eH2II/?igshid=le62tj0hmw33

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Merce. Acrylic ink on watercolour paper 420 cms x 297 SOLD and soon to be reunited with its owner. There still a flurry of leaping about in here. #art #movement #connection #red #move #movimiento #contemporaryart #contemporaryfineart #dance #danza #arte #tinta #ink #solangeleoniriarte (at Kemptown, Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL11VusnjCW/?igshid=dkcu9v3yjm3e