Location: United States
My name is Hector Leon, I’m a self-taught artist from Orlando, Florida. Through my childhood and into my early twenties I would usually dabble with art, but it was a tool that I would usually turn to as an escape from reality. Art was a form of therapy that allowed me to create surreal imagery that expressed deeply held anxieties about my childhood. Coincidentally, during these early formative years I developed an interest in surrealism, psychoanalysis, and the subconscious mind - these subjects play a critical role in the development of my artistic expression today. In my late twenties I moved to New Jersey. Living so close to New York city gave me the opportunity to visit many of the museums like: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Guggenheim. This privilege of living by the center of art world ignited within me a passion for creativity, which is the road where I'm embarked on.
A selection of charcoal drawing including mixed media
Charcoal on paper, this drawing is about the body and the cycle of life. After death our bodies will be consumed by the earth and provide life to the earth like plants and species, it's a never ending cycle of life consuming life.