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Leonie Castelino
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Leonie Rosemarie Castelino is a modern textile artist from Mahwah, New Jersey. The Artist Leonie Castelino's art focuses on lost arts of ancient cultures - Japanese shibori (shaping cloth with resist and dye) and rozome (painting with dye and wax), as well as Korean pojagi (piercing cloth). Her art focuses on the lost arts of ancient cultures including Japanese shibori and Rozome, and Korean pojagi. Leonie is also known for her tactile art of a by gone era - European and Asian Decorative Arts of the 18th - 20th Centuries. Objects of art are rendered in paint, gold leaf, pen work or eggshell to simulate ivory or boulle inlay in tortoiseshell, Vizagapatam, Chinoiserie and Japonism. Leonie’s textile and tactile works of art have been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in metropolitan New York, auctioned by Sotheby’s at the Arader Gallery in New York, Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2007 in Korea, Irma Stern Museum in South Africa, and in private collections. 
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