![The most important thing is being authentic to yourself, as a creator, and actually trying to find your true voice - Leah Hewson [30]](https://s3.castbox.fm/4a/36/23/0afba89dcd899ef8e6cc3efd00d5333dde_scaled_v1_400.jpg "The most important thing is being authentic to yourself, as a creator, and actually trying to find your true voice - Leah Hewson [30]")
The most important thing is being authentic to yourself, as a creator, and actually trying to find your true voice - Leah Hewson [30]
Update: 2025-05-26
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Leah Hewson is an abstract artist who works in layers of complex patterns, in vibrant neon colours. She studied in Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design. She has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions in the RHA and Hillsboro. Fine Art. She has had residencies in New York, LA Berlin and Dublin. She has won several awards, including the whites award for painting in the RHA. Her work is in many public collection and has also been auctioned at Sotheby's
In this episode of The Warrior Artist Podcast, Leah chats to host Éadaoin Glynn about :
- Interning with Sean Scully in New York moved her directly into abstraction
- Collaborations enable to give up control and access creativity
- Why she enjoys working in a variety of mediums
- Her intuitive painting process and painting in the 'flow state'
- Avoiding the comfort zone and challenging herself
- Her advice for artists
- Commercial commissions and being outside the gallery system
- Having a painting auctioned at Sothebys London
- Mural painting
- Having an authentic voice and the importance of discipline.
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Podcast Edited by Bren Russell of Podland
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