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LeeAnn Love Studio

Ecological landscape artist practicing in collaboration with the living world. Nashville, Tennessee + East Lothian, Scotland.

Holding a deep love for natural pigments, sustainability, and the spirit of place.

10/09/2026

Colorful Bark, Rùsg Dathach in Scottish Gaelic, is back under the tree exactly where she belongs

My upcoming exhibition, Of Stone, Tree, and Sea, investigates the intricacies of Earth’s signature fingerprints: rock patterns, bark motifs, seaweed textures, and terrain topography. Cocreating with the natural world, each abstracted shape has been directly inspired by environmental elements from the East Lothian countryside. Additionally, many inks and paints have been created from the land itself, with special colour features from my Tennessee home, Dunbar red rocks, and a Haddington Wellingtonia.

One week until the opening!

Of Stone, Tree, and Sea
Opening: Friday, 16 October
6-8 pm
Sam Bain

Venue 25
Dunbar Art Route Open Studio Trail
16 October - 18 October

Hope to see you there!

10/06/2026

Join me with Dunbar Art Route Open Studio Trail for a demonstration of transforming Dunbar’s red sandstone into watercolour paint.

*Saturday, 17 October
or
*Sunday, 18 October
*2-3 pm
Venue 25 Dunbar Art Route

10/03/2026

You are cordially invited to "Of Stone, Tree, & Sea" - https://mailchi.mp/ad2b7e63d223/you-are-cordially-invited-to-of-stone-tree-sea

09/30/2026

When painting, I love to consider the intersection of my Tennessee upbringing and my Scottish heritage. I find my creative investigations leading me into more paradox, more communing with the land, and more questions. Why does it feel like my soul knows this land, and I am only a visitor? Why do the lands I grew up on bring comfort but not the same bone knowing experience for me? Finding myself in between, belonging to both and neither simultaneously, I traverse these lands and these questions in my creations. Quite truly, you would have no idea if this waterfall is in Tennessee or Scotland, unless you saw it with your own eyes. All I know is that waterfalls, no matter where they are, feel like home.

Of Stone, Tree, & Sea
Sam Bain

Opening: 16 October 6-8 pm

In coordination with Dunbar Art Route Open Studio Trail
16 October - 18 October
Venue 25, 10 am - 4 pm

09/29/2026

She Points to the Sky, 2026, 24x36 is made of this tree’s Wellingtonia ink, walnut ink, green earth, ice water from Storm Fern, Natural Earth paints, graphite, and acrylic on canvas

My upcoming exhibition, Of Stone, Tree, and Sea, investigates the intricacies of Earth’s signature fingerprints: rock patterns, bark motifs, seaweed textures, and terrain topography. Cocreating with the natural world, each abstracted shape has been directly inspired by environmental elements from the East Lothian countryside. Additionally, many inks and paints have been created from the land itself, with special colour features from my Tennessee home, Dunbar red rocks, and a Haddington Wellingtonia.

Opening: Friday, 16 October
6-8 pm
Sam Bain

Venue 25
Dunbar Art Route Open Studio Trail

Hope to see you there!

09/23/2026

I have been exploring overpainted monotypes, along with my traditional landscape work for about a year. At my residency at The Verdancy Project, I began combining the patterns of tree bark and stone underneath my landscape work. Here are a few of my inspirations, as I find the “and” point between my varied artistic interests and styles. All are printed and painted with ecofriendly paints and inks.

09/22/2026

Fun sketching day, with a fierce wind and dear friend . I often get asked if I *always* use land based materials. Not always. I am still learning natural pigments, and they do not move the same way or hold the same viscosity as traditional paints and inks. The transition can be hard at times, as I have practiced with shelf made paints for over 30 years. I also believe the using of both natural and synthetic can also hold the “tension” of the life we are in, as my dear friend .kathryn.pancoast pointed out to me this week, as there is no real way to be 100% purely ecological. I continue to be committed to sustainability and finding my best evolving pathway to protect our planet within my art practice.

09/08/2026

This series of paintings explore organic shapes from tree bark found in East Lothian, Scotland. My paints and inks are created from various natural sources, including Dunbar red rock, Tennessee clay soil, woad, and walnut ink.

This series will be exhibited in “Of Stone, Tree, and Sea” at Sam Bain from 16 October - 13 November. Come out to the Dunbar Art Route Open Studio Trail the weekend of 16-18 October to see these bark overpainted monotypes in person!

05/26/2026

Big Ole Tree, a Tennessee Oak,2026
this tree’s ink itself, walnut ink, green earth, woad, Tennessee soil, acryliks, graphite, Storm Fern ice, and acrylic on canvas, 24” x 36”

A part of the recent exhibition, Big Ole Tree is a several hundred year old Oak sentient being found in Middle Tennessee woods, my dad’s favorite tree. He taught me to love trees and plants like family, and the Big Ole Tree was fundamental in seeing plant life in this way.

Dad told me many stories about the tree over the years. He tried to visit it, advocate for it, protect it, get the greenway path in town to have a detour to it. He would update me, and after a huge tornado, a couple of the most enormous branches were ripped off. These branches the size of their own several century old trees themselves. He was heartbroken by it, and through it all, the tree still stood proud and strong (even with a hole where the branch once was).

Not long after my dad’s death, I found an envelope in a wooden box that he kept his treasures in. The envelope said, “pix of the Big Ole Tree” and my pet name, Lee. I carefully opened the envelope to find all those pictures of me and the tree from decades ago, with a phone number of the Arbor Society on it. And of course, tears and joy rolled down my cheeks. He had left me to take care of his favorite tree, to carry on his legacy, and he deeply knew, in my tenacity, that I would fight for the “Big Ole Tree.”

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