Daniel Leighton

My art is focused on the importance of identifying, expressing, and acknowledging emotions. We all feel emotions, which significantly impact us, but they often go unacknowledged. When we don’t deal with what’s going on inside of us, that’s when chaos happens because, ultimately, it impacts every decision we make and every action we take. What will help us get to a better place in the world is if we, the leaders and the followers, all deal with our internal worlds. What holds us back from feeling is that we think we can’t take it. But when we go into those feelings and look at them, we find a greater peace than any of the pain we think we’re avoiding. I paint internal landscapes and put them out into the world as a language that others can use.