LeavesArt Canada

Art from Nature

While exploring hiking trails, Rick and Christine were inspired to merge their talents to fashion sculpted leaves. Homegrown rhubarb and ‘liberated’ burdock form the starting point for many of the pieces, from near-virtual duplicates in size and appearance to unique  shaping and sizing. Leaves with prominent bottom veining provide the shape and detail for the sculpted leaf.

Leaves are grown, or harvested in areas accessible for hiking in our area.

Durham Region (near Toronto) Ontario Canada

289-675-5157

contactus@LeavesArt.ca

More about Art from Nature

Rick captures a surface imprint for each piece in a cement casting process using actual (Master) leaves to produce the core leaf casting, and then finesses the shape and finish, by sculpting the cement so the prime leaf is ready to be dressed up. No leavesart pieces are the same. Nature is fickle and Rick is fussy. When the leaf is ready to become the "canvas" for painting, it is coated with a primer base ready for Christine.

Christine transforms the leaf’s surface utilizing a palette which can be faithful to the actual leaf, or inspired by patterns and colours of other leaf types, or inspired by various stages of its own life cycle.

Often Christine uses the prime leaf to create both dazzling and whimsical pieces that blend nature and imagination.

We name the pieces, sculpted shape/size/the final appearance or our nature's inspiration.

Some of Our Art
Gone with the Wind (26x18 in)Top Dog (16x12 in)Rebuked ( 20x16 in)Trent (22x13 in)Along the Trail (22x13 in)
Rick Sculptor

About Rick

The Leaf Starter

Rick likes to make and fix things, just about anything home and mechanics related, so the tools for creating leaf castings and sculpting them are in his workshop/studio. His career experience is in quality and process development, and recreationally, gardening and hiking which spurred the interest in both.
With Brush and pallette

About Christine

The Leaf Closer

Christine likes to decorate inside and outside, whether for a season or event and loves to use bright colours and mediums to do so. She was previously a graphics specialist in print media. Armed with her paint brushes and jars of acrylic paint, she selects and blends hues that boldly celebrate our changing seasons. She takes pleasure in replicating nature’s rich pallet as well as creating leaves that convey flourishes of whimsy.

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When we display Leaf Art flat inside

The Leaves are cast to provide a bowl'ish shape, which makes them tippy so we use a cradle to support it. We like the full end to be raised. Tip down is what we often see when we harvest the mature leaf. We designed a universal cradle with pegs to support the leaf, and it is available at time of acquisition.

When we display Leaf Art outside, best orientation

The Leaves are cast with unique surface/edge fluting that  is visually striking, and serve to provide locations to support for best presentation, which should be close to vertical. If too flat, water will puddle, and successive fill and evaporation cause water marking. We use  drift wood as a support  so that Leaf presents well visually, and drains as well.  Full end or Tip down is personal preference. We do both. We collect driftwood that best cradles for appearance and drainage.
We can provide guidance on that, but placement for best view is ultimately going to be a very personal choice.

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When we use Leaf Art in Fountains

Leaves are cast so a water pool and channel can collect and direct to the next leaf depending on the distance between, and angle of the leaves. Because every leaf is different every fountain will need to be unique to suit waterflow volume without having splash out that will utimately empty the pond. Leaf layout and flow rate may need to be adjusted. View the video of our  first fountain, and we will post more as we create different designs. In 2024 we are upgrading to larger leaves, so supporting cradles will be more robust and have better adjustability.

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Contact Us

If you want to contact us about what we do, you can use the contact us mail link, or use the messaging form below.
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Our master leaves for casting cannot be re-used, which is why every sculpted leaf is different. We do send the spent leaf model into the compost stream so it can contribute to nature once again. In the case of rhubarb leaves we also make tasty treats from the stalks.