Leighann Foster

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Sugar Cookies

This painting has been accepted into the 101st Exhibitionof the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts

May 25 - July 14, 2012

Mystic Arts Center

9 Water Street

Mystic, CT 06355

860-536-7601

The sugar cookies are drowning in granulated sugar and sugar cubes. The belly of the sugar jar reflects the sugar in the foreground and the lid has turned into a sugar cookie with a cube for a handle. It is soft, beautiful and dangerous where there are no limits to the landscape and our need for sugar.

Oil on canvas board

10" X 12"

$1200.00, plus shipping

Leighann Foster, foster3@gvtc.com

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Sea of Sugar

In this painting on Processed Foods I ask several questions. Is the soft, lovely, swirling forms of white sugar meant to describe the nature of the sweet substance or is it a dangerous rising level trying to drown out the box and the packet of Kool Aide? How much sugar is too much and do we consume more than we should?

Oil on canvas board

10" X 12"

$1200.00, plus shipping

Leighann Foster, foster3@gvtc.com

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Just Add Sugar

I am starting a new series about Processed Foods. This painting is about the sugar we consume. The glass full of Cherry Kool Aide is sitting in a sugar jar where there isn’t any room for the lid and sugar spoon. The environment consists of mounds and hill of sugar. The color appeals to kids, as does the twisting neon green straw, making it fun to drink.

Oil on canvas board

12" X 10"

$1200.00, plus shipping

Leighann Foster, foster3@gvtc.com

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Loops For Lunch

A bowl of Fruit Loops neatly place in a lunchbox with a napkin for spills.

Oil on linen board

10" X 12"

$950.00, plus shipping

Leighann Foster, foster3@gvtc.com

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Fruit Loops

I am starting a new series investigating processed foods. The ingredients may start out as whole foods but then they are altered, subtracted from, added to, preserved, and colored, no longer being the wholesome foods they started out to be. The finished product is beautiful and the packaging draws you in and begs to be bought.

In this series I am not going to use the conventional tabletop, shelf or wall to paint my still life subjects. This painting takes place in a child’s lunchbox where a lot of processed food ends up. The Fruit Loops were beautiful and fun to paint. Do they bring back memories and feeling of nostalgia and childhood or do they make you want to read the label first?

Oil on linen board

12" X 10"

$950.00, plus shipping

Leighann Foster, foster3@gvtc.com

Website, www.leighannfoster.com

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