Background

When I was seven, my family moved from an urban area to West Barnstable, Cape Cod, where I lived for the remainder of my childhood. Although initially resistant to the change, I soon fell in love with the wild and scraggly parts of our new environment. 

My cousin and I would explore the woods, fields, vernal pools and small glacial craters surrounding my yard. We would sneak into the dunes bordering the nearby beaches. Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia, fairy tales, and like stories, we dreamed up complex fantasy realms in the various "territories" of West Barnstable. The magical lens through which I still view and paint nature probably stems from that imaginary world we created as kids. Many of the areas that we deemed as most enchanting have since been developed, I was lucky to have experienced my neighborhood in its less inhabited time. 

I grew up in a traveling family. In the summers we would stay with relatives in Austria and Switzerland, and every fall we would visit friends in Vermont. I got to see amazing places and experience some truly epic landscapes, which shaped the imagery and color schemes in my prints and paintings. I think the best feeling for most artists is discovering something so fantastic that their fingers are just itching to capture it. Traveling always does that for me. 

biography

Léonie Little-Lex is a fine artist and illustrator from Cape Cod, MA. She graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration in 2009, then went on to complete her Masters of Arts in Teaching in 2012. She shows her work in galleries on Cape Cod and in the greater Boston area, and has also exhibited nationally in Oregon, New York, and North Carolina. She works in a variety of mediums with an emphasis on painting and pen-and-ink drawings. She recently illustrated her first children's book, "A is for Always" (written by Linda Cutting, Workman Publishing), released in August 2022. In addition to her work as an artist, Léonie has been an instructor in drawing and painting for over 10 years, both in private and community settings.

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