Marleigh Culver is a Los Angeles painter, originally from Virginia. She works in abstraction, paints plants, mixes all her colors by hand.
I first became interested in abstract painting when I was very young. My parents used to take us to museums, and I absolutely fell in love with Ellsworth Kelly’s work at a museum in Washington, D.C. I found the vibrating colors of the large pieces very alluring. It felt like I was seeing for the first time. I was also very interested in Matisse’s interiors because they felt so fun and messy. I think I was in elementary or middle school when I was drawn to that era of his work.