Lea Cummings

Artist Statement:

“I am interested in work that contains movement and does not remain static on a flat canvas; work open to individual interpretation. I use repetition and layers of basic colour.

When I was growing up I used to spend hours staring at the patterned wallpaper in the house I grew up in, and would see all sorts of things that other people didn't.”

An Involuntary Movement…

“After we experience a falling dream repeatedly, on its recurrence we know, while falling, that it is a falling dream; and we dread to hit the bottom.

Now, I discovered long ago that one can break a falling dream, merely by ‘letting myself go'. It is a curious fact, but nevertheless true, that several others to whom I told this secret recalled it, while falling, and ‘let themselves go'. Every one of them testified that the repercussion was then almost insignificant. Do not fear hitting the bottom; just let yourself fall, and the repercussion, if any, will be slight. Fear speeds up the fall.”

Lea Cummings