Leigh Anita
Printmaker + Illustrator

Leigh Anita is a printmaker and illustrator based in Maine. Her work has gained recognition for meticulous detail and has been featured in several independent art publications. Her artwork spans a fever dream of memory. There was an attic and a pentagram on the floor. An icy ocean and jagged cliffs. Subterranean dance floors with tiles shaped like black stars. When looking back, it doesn’t make sense to start at the beginning or to connect truths to make anything greater of them. Rather, the only way that makes sense seems to be to place these experiences and characters as they were, or as they are: out of time. In winter I walk to desolate places. I watch carrier ships load freight. Iron and steel darting up toward murky skies. There is quiet in the pounding of metal. Beside the river, the cranes make no sound as they pile salt from the bellies of ships. They create mountains. I grew up on a small island, and sometimes wonder if I grew up to become a small island.

Leigh’s written work has been published by the Underground Writers Association in the poetry anthology: You, Me, & The End Of The World, and in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, a peer-reviewed academic journal. She has also published several independent chapbooks; Metropolitans., Sea Breezes, and 600 Horses of Fuel Injected Vengeance.

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Prints of my work and self-published books are available here.

If you are interested in purchasing an original piece or have a project to propose, please contact the artist by email at Leighanita@gmail.com