WELCOME, I'm Le'Ana Asher

I'm an Ojibwe woman, artist, and mother, and I paint from between two worlds — the one my people have always known, and the one that tried to erase it.

Every canvas holds what survived: our land, our stories, and the people I love most.

I'm an Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) oil painter based near Chicago, creating landscapes, botanicals, and figurative work rooted in the traditions, land, and people of my community. My work moves between realism and expressive brushwork portraits, pow wow regalia, woodland plants ; each piece a small act of remembering.

My path here wasn't a straight line. I've been making art my whole life, but it wasn't until I committed fully to my practice that it became who I am today — showing at Santa Fe and Eiteljorg, featured on PBS, and building a body of work collectors are proud to own.