What does it feel like to be seen, truly seen? The power of portraits resides not in the perfection of the subject but in the revelation of their true self.
Michelangelo has a famous quote of his ability to look at a piece of marble and envision what it could become, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”
There’s a literal fluidity in the paintings by Isabelle Haran-Leonardi. Depictions of watery landscapes and the sea creatures, both real and mythical, that lurk beneath are a balance between the artist’s combined love of science and life by the water...
