Aia Leu is a fine art painter who works in oil and watercolour, she has lived near Kenmare town since she moved there in 1989.
A self-taught third generation artist, she studied figure sketching as a teenager in Vevey, Switzerland. Her paternal grandmother is the Swiss artist Eva Aeppli.
Aia’s work draws directly from her multicultural and bohemian upbringing, which saw her raised ‘on the road’, as her parents followed their dream of a life of ‘art and freedom’. Her work is particularly influenced by both her years spent as a child in India, and the richness of the Irish landscape, a prolific landscape painter she has recently illustrated The Oracle of Change which reflects beautifully the diversity of her inspiration.
