outsider art

Leigh Cooney's extensive portfolio includes both oil and acrylic paintings, influenced by cartooning, pop-culture, surrealism, religious themes, and folk art. The Irish-born Canadian artist is self-taught and found success with a…

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”1 It was these words from the novel…