"Bleu Moon Rising (31 May 2026)" by Stacie LeBlanc

12.5 x 16.5 inches
Acryla gouache, metallic gouache and watercolor on watercolor paper
$500

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Artist Statement: 

The focus of my painting for many years has been to depict the ethereal, mystical images from my dreams and imagination, and give form to elemental, unexplained forces. I have developed a personal visual language, including a combination of self-created and historical symbols and forms that convey expressions re: women’s spirituality, sensuality, independence, and creativity, placing figures and other-worldly creatures in a dreamlike, surrealistic state. 

I use Abstract Figurative human shapes and elemental, or surreal magical beings. Backgrounds and environments undulate with movement, depicting unanchored space with color and form. As if in a dream, backgrounds convey a sense of floating or flying, one shape layered over another to create space, often emphasizing one figure by cropping edges tightly. 

A recent series of paintings experiments with ideas combining ancient map motifs and my contemporary metaphysical concepts about time, celestial bodies, physics, enigmatic beings, and the historical veil between worlds.

About the Artist:

Stacie LeBlanc was born in Seattle, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at UW, Seattle. She was influenced by Alden Mason, Jacob Lawrence, Michael Spafford and Ken Kelly there, and took momentous private lessons with Mauricio Robalino.

Stacie is an Abstract Figurative painter, using the mediums of watercolor, Acryla  gouache and metallic gouache on watercolor paper. She incorporates metaphysical concepts into her work, and includes a hint of surrealism.

Stacie has shown her work at the Copper Wolf Gallery in Tumwater, Gallery North in Edmonds, the Domicile Gallery in Madison Park, Seattle, the Jansen Art Center in Lynden, the Anacortes Arts Fair, and through the Marin Society of Artists All Media Juried Show. 

Stacie also contributed a graphic design for the City of Bellevue’s Neighborhood Engancement Program’s Entrance Rock Project, and taught art for Bellevue School District for 11 years.

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