Leah Nadeau

Leah Nadeau Contemporary Abstract Artist Leah Nadeau is a contemporary abstract fine artist in Seattle. Years of painting have only clarified this vision.

Nadeau’s vibrant artworks combine geometric abstraction, energetic color stories, loose brushstrokes, and clean linework. Her work is inspired by travel, architecture, her film studies, and time periods in culture and design such as the German Expressionist Movement, the Art Deco Movement, and the Mid-Century Modern Era. In 2006, Nadeau’s travels prompted her to purchase a sketchbook for the first

time, beginning a transformative journey into art. In these early moments of her career, Nadeau’s skills for discernment and visual memory became finely tuned, utilizing industry, architecture, and design influences to sketch. Realizing that not every person is drawn to the same specific visual stimuli, she began incorporating these distinctions into her work– commentary on the imagery we consume. Her education as a film student gives her a unique perspective: the ability to view the world from the outside in, as if watching characters interact in the storyscapes she creates with paint. Known for bright, saturated colors, highly textured paintings, linework, and vivid shapes, Nadeau's work challenges the ways we see and interpret the world. She has sold over 170 pieces of original art direct to buyers. Nadeau’s paintings “Electric Circus” 1 & 2 were purchased by the Henry Ford Health System and are on permanent display at the Brigette Harris Cancer Center. Her solo exhibitions at Great Lakes Coffee Co. in 2019 and Brewery Faisan in 2020 were met with universal praise. When in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, you can stop by the local streets to find her outdoor public artwork display, “Art From My Heart”, a four-foot painted heart installation. Nadeau’s distinctive paintings incorporate her authenticity and innovation, themes which stay with her Collectors long after they first view her paintings.

I’m selling this gorgeous 10 x 13” framed palette painting, message me if it would bring you the energetic joy it suppl...
09/03/2026

I’m selling this gorgeous 10 x 13” framed palette painting, message me if it would bring you the energetic joy it supplies to any room it’s in. ✨💐

I’m 35, and I don’t know if I’m going to have kids.I don’t talk about that very often because it feels incredibly vulner...
09/03/2026

I’m 35, and I don’t know if I’m going to have kids.

I don’t talk about that very often because it feels incredibly vulnerable to admit.

There’s this weird thing that happens to women around my age where suddenly it feels like there’s a clock hanging over your head. You become painfully aware of time. And the questions start rolling in, not just in your own head, but from everyone else.

Will you have kids? Do you want them? When are you going to decide? What if you wait too long? What if you don’t have them and regret it?

I genuinely don’t know.

Some days I can picture that life.

Other days I look at the life I’ve built and wonder if maybe this is my life. My art. My relationship. My dog. The worlds I get to create. All the things I still want to do.

And I hate that somewhere along the way, I absorbed this idea that if I don’t become a mother, I somehow missed the biggest thing I was supposed to do as a woman.

I don’t believe that, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel it.

Maybe part of becoming more myself is realizing that I don’t have to have the answer just because the world thinks I should by now.

Maybe I’m allowed to still be figuring out what I want my life to look like.

Behind me is "Caravel on the Horizon" 30 x 40" available.

Ever wonder what it’s like to commission a painting for your home? Wonder no further! Have any questions about the proce...
09/01/2026

Ever wonder what it’s like to commission a painting for your home? Wonder no further! Have any questions about the process? Ask away. Want to commission one yourself? Message me.

09/01/2026

I used to be so much weirder. Then I grew up and started worrying what people thought. I want to go back and reclaim the girl I was before I started caring about how I would be perceived. Who is with me?

Something a bit different! A new original floral, acrylic on paper.
08/31/2026

Something a bit different! A new original floral, acrylic on paper.

The craziest places I’ve seen my artwork in the wild? A Walmart Christmas ad in 2024, and an episode of A and E’s tv sho...
08/30/2026

The craziest places I’ve seen my artwork in the wild? A Walmart Christmas ad in 2024, and an episode of A and E’s tv show Intervention, the rehab center had my art prints on their walls!

Have a question about my process? My personal life in general? Maybe a controversial question like who I voted for? (Har...
08/29/2026

Have a question about my process? My personal life in general? Maybe a controversial question like who I voted for? (Harris, duh) ask away!!!!!

New limited edition prints are here, once 30 are sold they will be retired. Which is your favorite?
08/29/2026

New limited edition prints are here, once 30 are sold they will be retired. Which is your favorite?

08/27/2026

I had a wonderful day at Swan Island Dahlias with Molly | Contemporary Ceramics, Chelsea | Modern Love Candle Co. gathering inspiration and enjoying nature.

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