“I started making art because I realized that that was where I could bring things to think about and work on – and be surprised. I could bring life there and work with it in a way that I couldn’t do anywhere else.” – Leidy Churchman

I am an artist and designer experimenting with paints, mediums and surface conditions. My work combines color and form bridging the visual energy field of color to tap into unseen phenomena and energies around us. 

I respond to watercolor’s fluidity, intensity of pigment, and dynamic properties. I often begin with a landscape format. Oftentimes amoebic shapes will emerge as I intuitively gesture, imagine and give color to unseen forces. Through tension in edge conditions and layers overlapping, I watch and guide how forms and washes and colors relate to each other. 

The bright and sometimes vivid hues in my work feel like they overlap into my spiritual practice. The meditation and experience of my inner landscape and heightened sensorial awareness become material and this artwork forms another bridge, into another kind of conversation; remembering with some proof of the beauty of our human condition. 

– Samantha Gore, November 2025

Source: 

A Brush of Dharma. Interview with Leidy Churchman by Anne Doran. Tricycle Magazine, Fall 2020.