Sometimes, second acts in life are the most exciting.

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...