About

/ Artist & Designer specializing in mural art, oil painting, and facilitation.

/ British-canadian-nigerian, Toronto-based, London (UK) born, and bred below sea level in the Netherlands.

Leone creates from her source of life to counter-act the increasing presence of anxiety, social polarization, and emotional fatigue. Metaphors of transformation sift the surface of her work, reflecting ideas of change and perspective shifts; while contrasting matte colours magnify the sensation of renewal despite the unknown. The desire to maintain luminosity in her oil paintings has inspired a transparency-driven painting process; which produce highly detailed, saturated, and translucent oil paintings with an internal glow.

Leone’s mural practise carries a similar heart with a focus on revitalizing spaces and neighbourhoods; by honouring community stories and highlighting subtle but distinctive characteristics. As such, her design process involves getting to know people and creatively responding to her discoveries – to multiply the inspirational qualities that are core to them.

Her public art practice spans city and community commissions, including Re-create (Woodbine Park, 2023), Lansdowne Underpass (2021) through Toronto’s StART initiative, “Wax Eloquent” with BAND Gallery (2023), and “Just Ask” on local church Our Lady of Good Counsel (2024).

In 2024, Leone expanded into interactive installation art with “Everything Will Fade, These Three Remain;” created in partnership with BAND Gallery, Fengate Asset Management, and LiUNA!. She also produced a TTC-commissioned artwork for the TTC x StART Black History Month Art Bus campaign, which wrapped her artwork on city buses and transit advertising across Toronto.

Since receiving her B.Des from OCADU, her paintings have been exhibited in Canada, Italy, and South Korea, and her practice has been supported by the OAC, CAC, and the AKIN x MOCA Residency.