CLR Creations
Abstract cartography and portrait paintings by Christina Leigh
Featured Products
Help Bring the Savannah Cartography Series to Life
Become a founding supporter of the Savannah Cartography Series, a new collection of original abstract cartography paintings celebrating the history, ecosystems, and cultural heritage of Savannah, Georgia.
This six-painting collection explores the city's winding waterways, salt marshes, historic neighborhoods, and the stories that have shaped Savannah for nearly three centuries. Beginning with real maps and transformed through layered acrylic textures, each painting reflects the relationship between geography, memory, and identity.
Your contribution directly supports the research, design, and creation of the series, including archival materials, studio time, documentation, and exhibition preparation.
As a thank you for supporting independent art, every contributor will receive behind-the-scenes updates throughout the project, offering a first look at sketches, studio progress, and the stories behind each painting. Higher contribution levels include additional rewards such as limited-edition prints, postcard sets, early access to original works, and collector experiences.
Whether you have called Savannah home for decades, discovered its beauty while traveling, or simply believe in preserving meaningful places through art, your support becomes part of the story behind this collection.
Campaign Goal: $7,900
The Collection
Four original 9 × 12 inch paintings
One original 18 × 24 inch painting
One signature 18 × 36 inch painting of Ossabaw Sound
Together, these works will celebrate Savannah through its rivers, marshes, parks, neighborhoods, and the people whose stories continue to shape the city.
Thank you for helping transform maps into memories and preserving the spirit of Savannah through art.
Please note: This listing represents a crowdfunding contribution to the Savannah Cartography Series. Reward fulfillment and project updates will be provided according to the campaign timeline.
Help Bring the Savannah Cartography Series to Life
Become a founding supporter of the Savannah Cartography Series, a new collection of original abstract cartography paintings celebrating the history, ecosystems, and cultural heritage of Savannah, Georgia.
This six-painting collection explores the city's winding waterways, salt marshes, historic neighborhoods, and the stories that have shaped Savannah for nearly three centuries. Beginning with real maps and transformed through layered acrylic textures, each painting reflects the relationship between geography, memory, and identity.
Your contribution directly supports the research, design, and creation of the series, including archival materials, studio time, documentation, and exhibition preparation.
As a thank you for supporting independent art, every contributor will receive behind-the-scenes updates throughout the project, offering a first look at sketches, studio progress, and the stories behind each painting. Higher contribution levels include additional rewards such as limited-edition prints, postcard sets, early access to original works, and collector experiences.
Whether you have called Savannah home for decades, discovered its beauty while traveling, or simply believe in preserving meaningful places through art, your support becomes part of the story behind this collection.
Campaign Goal: $7,900
CLR Creations accepts a limited number of portrait commissions each year, specializing in engagements, weddings, newborns, and family milestones.
Each portrait is individually painted from your photographs and developed through conversation and artistic interpretation. Rather than simply reproducing a photograph, the goal is to preserve the people, atmosphere, setting, and details that make the moment meaningful.
Engagement & Wedding Portraits: Transform a favorite photograph into an original painting. Portraits may focus closely on the couple or incorporate the landscape, architecture, florals, light, and other details surrounding the day.
Newborn & Family Portraits: Preserve a fleeting season through an intimate portrait of a newborn, child, or family. These works are created as contemporary heirlooms intended to remain within the family for generations.
Materials
Choose from:
Archival Oil Paper: An intimate, heavyweight oil-painting surface intended for professional framing.
Archival ACM Panel: A smooth, rigid and highly stable surface with a contemporary presentation.
Oil-Primed Linen: A traditional fine-art surface with subtle texture, particularly suited to portraiture and expressive brushwork.
Birchwood Panel: A substantial rigid surface with a warm, tactile character.
Oil or acrylic paint is selected according to the surface and desired character of the painting. Available materials vary by size.
Sizes
Small: 9" × 12" to 11" × 14"
Newborns, single subjects, and intimate compositions.
Medium: 12" × 18" to 18" × 24"
Couples, parent and child, and portraits incorporating more of the setting.
Large: 24" × 30" to 30" × 40"
Wedding, family, and statement portraits.
Gallery: 36" × 36"+
Large-scale heirloom and portrait-landscape compositions.
Pricing & Consultation
The listed price reflects a 50% deposit toward your commission. Final pricing is based on the selected size, material, and composition and will be confirmed during your consultation before the commission agreement is signed.
Multiple subjects, complex settings, extensive detail, specialty materials, or significant reconstruction from several photographs may require an additional fee.
Any adjustment is discussed and approved before your commission agreement is signed and before painting begins. You may approve the revised price, adjust the concept to remain within your original budget, or request a refund before signing the agreement.
How It Works
1. Reserve — Select your size, material, and payment option.
2. Share — Send several high-resolution photographs and tell me about the people and moment you would like preserved.
3. Consult — Within 24–48 hours, I will reach out to begin the collaboration process. We will discuss setting, color, atmosphere, materials, and meaningful details.
4. Approve — I’ll confirm the final scope, price, and timeline. Your commission begins after the agreement is signed.
5. Create — Your portrait is painted individually by hand, with progress images shared at key stages.
6. Deliver — Once complete and sufficiently cured, your painting is carefully prepared for delivery.
Timeline
Allow approximately 10–12 weeks from signing the commission agreement, including approximately 10–12 weeks for painting and 2–8 business days for shipping.
Oil paintings may require additional drying time. Larger or more complex commissions may require longer. For weddings, anniversaries, holidays, or other time-sensitive gifts, please reserve early.
Photography
Clients are responsible for providing photographs they own or have permission to use. Professional wedding, engagement, or newborn photography may require permission from the photographer.
Shipping
Small and medium works are generally shipped flat and protected. Large works may require custom crating, freight, white-glove delivery, or installation. Additional delivery costs are quoted when applicable.
Commission Policy
Because each portrait is made specifically for you, commissions cannot be returned or exchanged once the agreement has been signed and painting has begun.
Before signing, you may adjust the scope, approve any price adjustment, or request a refund.
Reserve Your Portrait
Engagements become anniversaries. Wedding days become family histories. Newborns carry on legacies.
Transform a meaningful photograph into an original painting created by hand and made to remain within your family for generations.
Frame not included. Shipping, specialty crating, and installation may be quoted separately when applicable.
Commission an original painting of a place that has become part of your life.
Personal Cartography transforms meaningful geography into abstract, map-inspired artwork. A childhood neighborhood. The city where you met. A coastline returned to each summer. A honeymoon destination. A family property. A route traveled repeatedly. Or several places connected across years.
Each commission begins with the geography itself, then moves beyond the map. I research the location and consider its roads, waterways, boundaries, architecture, landscape, history, and other details that give the place its character. Through color, texture, line, and abstraction, that geography becomes something personal.
The finished painting is not intended to reproduce a conventional map. It is an interpretation of where your life unfolded and what remains of that place in memory.
Materials
Choose from:
Archival Oil Paper: An intimate, heavyweight oil-painting surface intended for professional framing.
Archival ACM Panel: A smooth, rigid and highly stable surface with a contemporary presentation.
Oil-Primed Linen: A traditional fine-art surface with subtle texture, particularly suited to expressive brushwork.
Birchwood Panel: A substantial rigid surface with a warm, tactile character.
Oil or acrylic paint is selected according to the surface and desired character of the painting. Available materials vary by size.
Sizes
Small: 9" × 12" to 11" × 14"
An intimate study of one meaningful place. Ideal for a neighborhood, property, coastline, landmark, or destinatio.
Medium: 12" × 18" to 18" × 24"
Offers more room for geographic detail, interconnected landmarks, waterways, roads, and the character of the surrounding landscape.
Large: 24" × 30" to 30" × 40"
Designed for more expansive compositions, complex geography, multiple connected locations, or a place explored through greater depth and detail.
Gallery: 36" × 36"+
Large-scale statement works created for significant personal narratives, expansive geography, and residential, hospitality, or commercial spaces.
Pricing & Consultation
The listed price reflects a 50% deposit toward your commission. Final pricing is based on the selected size, material, and composition and will be confirmed during your consultation before the commission agreement is signed.
Multiple subjects, complex settings, extensive detail, specialty materials, or significant reconstruction from several photographs may require an additional fee.
Any adjustment is discussed and approved before your commission agreement is signed and before painting begins. You may approve the revised price, adjust the concept to remain within your original budget, or request a refund before signing the agreement.
How It Works
1. Reserve — Select your size, material, and payment option.
2. Share — Send several high-resolution photographs and tell me about the people and moment you would like preserved.
3. Consult — Within 24–48 hours, I will reach out to begin the collaboration process. We will discuss setting, color, atmosphere, materials, and meaningful details.
4. Approve — I’ll confirm the final scope, price, and timeline. Your commission begins after the agreement is signed.
5. Create — Your cartography is painted individually by hand, with progress images shared at key stages.
6. Deliver — Once complete and sufficiently cured, your painting is carefully prepared for delivery.
Timeline
Allow approximately 10–12 weeks from signing the commission agreement, including approximately 10–12 weeks for painting and 2–8 business days for shipping.
Oil paintings may require additional drying time. Larger or more complex commissions may require longer. For weddings, anniversaries, holidays, or other time-sensitive gifts, please reserve early.
Photography
Clients are responsible for providing photographs they own or have permission to use. Professional wedding, engagement, or newborn photography may require permission from the photographer.
Shipping
Small and medium works are generally shipped flat and protected. Large works may require custom crating, freight, white-glove delivery, or installation. Additional delivery costs are quoted when applicable.
Commission Policy
Because each landscape is made specifically for you, commissions cannot be returned or exchanged once the agreement has been signed and painting has begun.
Before signing, you may adjust the scope, approve any price adjustment, or request a refund.
Reserve Your Personal Cartography
Some places become more than coordinates on a map. They hold the roads we traveled, the landscapes we remember, and the moments that unfolded there. A Personal Cartography commission transforms that geography into an original work of art, preserving a place that has become part of your story.
Frame not included. Shipping, specialty crating, and installation may be quoted separately when applicable.
Sweet Savannah is an original abstract cartography painting celebrating Savannah through color, geography, and memory.
Inspired by the vibrant colors and Southern confections of Savannah’s historic River Street, the painting transforms the city into a candy-colored map of experience. Turquoise waterways move around lavender neighborhoods, bright greens trace the familiar street grid, and warm creams and golden yellows recall pralines fresh from the kettle.
The painting grew from one of my earliest memories of Savannah: visiting River Street Sweets at sixteen and tasting my first warm praline. Years later, the scent of butter, toasted pecans, vanilla, and caramelized sugar still carries me back to that afternoon along the Savannah River.
Within Sweet Savannah, geography becomes a place for memory to settle. The Historic District, waterways, marshes, islands, and coastal landscape remain visible beneath layers of playful color and pattern. Each detail holds something of the city as I have experienced it, shaped by its streets, its water, its traditions, and its sweetness.
This is the original 9 × 12-inch painting, created by hand in acrylic on board in 2026. As a one-of-a-kind work, there is only one original Sweet Savannah available.
Details
Original artwork
Acrylic on board
9 × 12 inches
2026
Signed by the artist
One of a kind
$899
Featured Exhibitions
Landscape and Places
A virtual exhibition with Women in Arts Network, where artists reflect on the places that stay with them. Through observation and memory, each work holds the quiet space between what is seen and what is felt, where landscapes and lived moments remain present over time.
Tantalus, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Acrylic on board, 9×12 inches
$699
Inspired by time spent at Tantalus Estate on Waiheke Island, this piece captures the warmth and quiet discovery of the vineyard landscape. Guided by the layered character of Syrah, deep reds, soft rose tones, and flowing blues move through the composition, echoing the curves of the valley. The work holds a sense of richness and movement, reflecting both the energy of the place and the feeling of a moment that lingers.
Abstract Zone 2024 brings together artists from around the world working across contemporary abstraction in both 2D and 3D media. Presented by Exhibizone, the online exhibition considers color, form, movement, and material as ways of looking beyond direct representation.
Little House, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
Acrylic on board, 9×12 inches
$699
A painting shaped by time spent at Casita Miro overlooking the vines and sea of Onetangi. Layers of mineral whites, softened pinks, warm reds, and sunlit golds reflect the vineyard landscape, mosaic surfaces, and the atmosphere of an afternoon shared over rosé, conversation, and shifting coastal light.
Mapping Experience, Shaping Space
Christina Leigh is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia, and the founder of CLR Creations. She creates abstract map paintings inspired by travel and the places that shape our lives. Beginning with real maps, each painting is transformed through layers of texture and color to reflect the memories, experiences, and connections we carry long after a journey has ended. Along with original paintings and fine art prints, Christina creates custom commissions for clients who want to celebrate a place that holds special meaning. Whether it's a hometown, a favorite destination, or the setting of an important life moment, each commissioned painting tells a personal story through the language of maps, memory, and landscape.
