She’s Still With Us – 72cm x 32cm Mixed Media Painting on Canvas

This layered mixed media artwork distorts and reframes an original painting, creating a ghostly double-vision effect that blurs reality and memory. She’s Still With Us submerges the subject within shifting waters, where clouds from another of Leia’s paintings drift beneath the surface, deepening the dreamlike atmosphere. The distorted reflection adds an airy, almost otherworldly quality, as if the image itself is slipping away. Painted over the canvas, against a striking bright pink background, looms a fragmented, childlike figure—an eerie presence lingering within the water. This spectral form embodies the essence of a lost childhood, an echo of the past that refuses to fade. With its ambiguity intact, the piece fixates on the turmoil of the inner child, evoking the weight of memory, pain, and the unresolved spectres of personal history.