My work speaks to ideas of home – where we feel at home, how the landscape around us creates a home, the body as home, the spirit as home, childhood memories of home and displacement from home. On a larger scale these works relate to the climate crisis and the realization that the earth is home and the emotions that surround witnessing it’s deterioration. I visited the Jökulsárlón floating glaciers in Iceland up close and witnessed a large piece of the glacier cleave off into the water. This struck me to the core, the loss, the inevitable change to come. The layered photographic images I use are taken in places of strong memory for me. But they are also intended to relate to a common memory. I am exploring ideas of nostalgia, the loss of memory as well as the building of fables to fill our desperate desire to hold onto good memories. Arleigh Wood studied at Concordia University in Montreal and the University of Hertfordshire in St Albans UK, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours. Wood has participated extensively in national and international exhibitions. Her work is in private and corporate collection and has been featured hotels and in various interior design magazines including Canadian House and Home. Wood’s paintings have also been used in films and television shows like the Designer Guys. Wood’s work can be found at Art Interiors in Toronto, Vancouver Art Gallery Sales and Rental Program and Whitebird Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon. When she is not working in her Vancouver studio, Wood enjoys fast-paced urban explorations and peaceful natural escapes. Wood lives by the sea in Vancouver, Canada. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her family, jumping into the ocean, training for triathlons and pretending she can dance to hip hop.