Linnea Toney Leeming is an abstract painter whose multi-faceted career as an artist, educator, and photographer has spanned more than 30 years. After achieving her BFA and exhibiting for many years as a fine art photographer, Linnea became intrigued by the ability to visually communicate without the distraction of mechanical tools. Pursuing this passion for painting she attended RISD and the Boston Museum School as well as receiving private instruction in abstraction. This resulted in becoming a successful painter for nearly half of her career, exhibiting absstract paintings since 1993. Linnea continues her interest in eye to hand directness in creating her own sense of space and time, using the abstractionist's process-driven approach to painting and utilizing the practice of listening to the unconscious. Large abstract paintings are conceived by making a series of considered decisions fueled by issues of color and space, where lines, patterns, and textures overlap and merge into unified compositions. Working intuitively and impulsively, always vibrant and energetic, her paintings burst with color; the mind and hand working together to spark imagination.

Linnea's paintings can be seen in galleries and collections throughout New England and New York. She is currently showing at the Bego Ezair Hotel Gallery, Southampton and Greenport, New York.