Leah Reusch is an interdisciplinary artist exploring intimate human connection to nature and community. Reusch works as a painter, poet, and installation artist in many mediums, as well as a wilderness field guide where she applies her art in natural teaching settings. Through large-scale abstracted natural painted scenes in her individual practice, Reusch widens the spaces between realism and abstraction, landscape and inner space, to open up room for viewer and artist, collective and individual, to find moments of truth and connection. Reusch’s work aims to pull closer the horizon of society vs. wilderness, human vs. being, until it is a blurred line and safe, accessible, decolonized place; a unity that inspires all to care for the earth and others as ourselves; a challenge against the inequity of outdoor spaces and inner hierarchies. Through wild gesture, vivid color and reactive, meditative painting, Reusch creates huge living paintings that she sees as an extension of her own body, a living breathing space. Reusch lives and works across the world painting and teaching on farms and in wilderness settings with youth and disabled people.