Caroline Leaf (born August 12, 1946) is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist.
She attended Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and majored in architectural sciences and visual arts from 1964-1968.
Using this technique, she produced her first film Sand, or Peter and the Wolf and was awarded a scholarship from Harvard University.
Her most renowned short film was The Street, which was drawn directly under the camera with a mix of paint and glycerin.
She made a documentary film on the singers Kate and Anna McGarrigle, produced by Derek Lamb.
She worked for 2 years using this technique on her film Two Sisters original version called Entre Deux Soeurs.
In 2004 she contributed animation to a film about the Underground Railroad produced by Acme Filmworks in Los Angeles called Suite for freedom.
[10] Since 2000 Leaf has maintained a studio in London, England, and developed a personal style of painting in oils as well as drawings on paper.
Her work is abstract and very much guided by mark-making and a personal search to create spaces a viewer is invited to enter.
She has also developed a lively landscape style of direct observation from nature and works on field trips with paper and pencil and also iPad, using programs called Brushes and ProCreate.
[citation needed] Michael Nock Foundation, Hong Kong, 2014 Abbaye de Fontevraud, France, 2014 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, residency, summer 1997