• Through intuitive mark-making and material dialogue, her work draws inspiration from the mountain landscapes of her childhood and her family's ancestral homelands

    Ludi Leiva (b. 1990) is a Canadian-American visual artist of Guatemalan and Slovak heritage working across drawing, painting, and printmaking. Her practice is a contemplative dialogue between landscape, body, and memory, exploring states of liminality and belonging through an interplay of figuration and abstraction. She has exhibited work in New York City, Chicago, Stockholm, and London, and received awards and grants including from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Currently studying a one-year drawing programme at The Royal Drawing School, Ludi lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

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    Leiva approaches her work as a spiritual act, a way to transmute her subconscious into physical form. Working with oil pastel, oil bar, charcoal, acrylic, oil, often layered atop monotype prints, she builds richly textured surfaces from observation, imagination, and memory. Through intuitive mark-making and material dialogue, her work draws inspiration from the mountain landscapes of her childhood and her family's ancestral homelands, merging human figures with abstract natural forms.

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