Caryl Hull Leavitt
Art has been a consistent force throughout Caryl’s life. Raised in NY, going to museums and art fairs was a usual family outing. A plastic color wheel with which “you could mix a world of possibilities” was her choice of souvenir from one street fair then, as it would be now. After graduating from Hampshire College with a BFA, and early brushes with galleries, she spent her career as a founder and creative director of a design firm specializing in biotech while raising her now grown family just outside of Boston.
Hull Leavitt paints from observation, memory and intuition. The patterns and dynamics of a fleeting scene and familiar routines often catch her eye in unexpected ways. Throughout any given day she is likely to make quick sketches or snap photos of what she sees for later reference. She views her subject matter as a catalyst for exploration and discovery so that one theme may find its way through painting, collage and mixed media sculpture, each offering its own means of expression.
Hull Leavitt counts Josef Albers’ color theory and Black Mountain College’s reliance on available materials, the rigorous brushstrokes of Expressionist painters, and the many current and contemporary artists with whom she studies and exchanges ideas as major influences.
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