5 Questions With Leah Nadeau
iCanvas artist Leah Nadeau creates colorful abstract paintings aiming to celebrate living life boldly. A longtime creative, she only began painting in 2015. Her expressive works feature texture, layers, and shapes and range from muted earth tones to single color saturations to vibrant palettes.
Beyond their visual appeal, creating each piece also provides joy and strength to Nadeau. The comfort she finds in the brush, the exhilaration in the colors, and the therapeutic process of covering the canvas, helps her battle her long term struggles with OCD, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. While we know abstract art offers benefits to its viewers, we’re thrilled to know how creating positively impacts Leah’s life too! We’re proud to offer their work on iCanvas, and wanted to take a minute to introduce you to the human behind the art.
Keep reading to get a taste of what inspires their work, the style of music they create to, and other artists they appreciate. You might be surprised to learn what you have in common!
Who are 5 of your current favorite artists, living or dead?
Frank Lloyd Wright, Jeff Koons, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Kline
“Affleck House” by Frank Lloyd Wright 
“Flower Drawing” by Jeff Koons 
“Untitled, 1949” by Mark Rothko 
“Squares with Concentric Circles” by Wassily Kandinsk 
“Untitled” by Franz Kline
What band or musician would you listen to while creating your art?
Lady GaGa, Muse, Paramore, Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey
If you could master any other form of creative expression, what would it be?
I wish I could play the piano and sing. There’s something so romantic about connecting others with song and music. It’s a beautiful way of expressing yourself.
What is one person, one place, and one object that inspires you?
Lady GaGa inspires me a lot, and San Francisco is my favorite place in the world. When I was in college I went to a museum in Oakland, California that had my favorite art installation and to this day is my “white whale”. It was a little cabin that you walked into and was almost a camping site with an audio track playing with the rain. The experience was cathartic. I would say the cabin was equipped with items from the early 1900s. I wish I knew who made it!
What is something about you that others may be surprised to learn?
I’ve only been painting since 2015.
Check out some of Leah Nadeau’s creations below, and click here to view their full iCanvas collection.
