Experience the Enigmatic Art of Luminalia by Patricia Leidl
Welcome to Luminalia, where the ordinary becomes the extraordinary. Luminalia merges the sacred with the satirical and the mythical with the mundane, inspired by the artistic vision of Patricia Leidl.
Sockeye Abduction
Madam: Victoria Unbuttoned
Three Crows
Woman with a Budgie
Minotauress
Angel Fish
Yelling Crow
Merman thingy
Blue Gloves
Rock Cod
Tubby Trout
The Girl with the Icy Stare
The Frozen Woman
After the End
Beloved
Moth 2
Moth
The Winding Sheet
Friar Tuck-in
Mother Mary Magdalene
Our Lady of the Sockeye
Hildegarde of Bingen
St. Agathe

What Is Luminalia?
Luminalia showcases the work of Patricia Leidl, a Canada-based artist and designer. Prior to pursuing art production full-time, Leidl worked first as a journalist, and then as an award-winning illustrator. In 1997 she pivoted into a career as an International Development Communications professional working variously with a number of United Nations agencies and International NGOs as well as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in New York, Bonn, Geneva, Afghanistan, Yemen and other fragile and conflict-prone states.
Her 2015 book, "The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy," was co-authored with Valerie M. Hudson, and received numerous accolades including a 2015 Prose Prize.
In 2021, a sudden and crippling illness led her "kicking and screaming" to refocus on art,
Today, Leidl has recalibrated into a more interior focus where she explores universal themes of life, love, dreams, death, transition and the essential mystery that defines our very existence.
Leidl's art is a blend of the sacred and satirical, featuring secretive and sensual images that reflect the human condition in all of its pathos, beauty, and absurdity. Her characters—both human and beast—inhabit a "visualosphere" that is at once contemporary, but peppered with ancient symbolism, visual puns and dark humour leavened with the exuberant and sensual use of colour and representation.
"I loved my former life," Leidl says. "But even the most catastrophic of situations can somehow bring you back to exactly where you need to be".
"My aim is to provoke contemplation, but also to amuse." she says. "One of the most important lessons I've learned while witnessing the very worst of human behavior, is that creation of beauty in and of itself actually matters."
Depth and complexity