# What Love Leaves

Petals of magenta and deep raspberry drift across a soft ivory ground in What Love Leaves, mingled with dark grains like seeds or turned soil. They gather in two loose streams running down the canvas, as though carried by a breeze or scattered along a path after a celebration. Beneath them, brushed cream builds gentle ridges and pools, and faint threads of rose trail across the surface like the memory of a ribbon.

Colangelo dropped and pressed the color by hand, letting each spot of pigment bloom and soften wherever it landed, and the canvas weave still shows through the thinnest passages. Up close, the magenta looks almost velvety against the dry, speckled black. One of her RELIC paintings, it is tender and bittersweet, holding the kind of beauty that stays long after someone has gone. It brings quiet romance to a bedroom above a dark dresser or to a sage green reading room above a walnut bookcase, with plum velvet and blush tones close by.

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## Details

- **Price:** 1900.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Original Painting
- **Tags:** abstract art, buy original art online, California artist, Mandie Colangelo, mixed media, original painting, under 2500, wall art

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 1900.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- What Love Leaves, original abstract mixed media painting by Mandie Colangelo, 20 x 16 in
- Detail of What Love Leaves by Mandie Colangelo, magenta spots and black grains over brushed cream ridges
- Detail of What Love Leaves by Mandie Colangelo, a raspberry bloom of pigment amid dark speckles on ivory
- What Love Leaves by Mandie Colangelo shown above a black dresser with a plum velvet pouf in a warm bedroom
- What Love Leaves by Mandie Colangelo shown above a walnut bookcase in a sage green reading room

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 20"×16"
- **Artist Material:** Mixed media on canvas
- **Artist Name:** Mandie Colangelo
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/mandie-colangelo

### About The Artist Content

Mandie Colangelo is an abstract painter based in Monterey, California. Raised in Arizona, she painted from childhood and wrote music, then built a creative career that moved through fashion, design, jewelry, graphic design and photography. Each chapter sharpened her eye for color, form and material. A season of profound change brought her back to the brush, and painting is now her primary practice.

Working in the abstract expressionist tradition, she builds her surfaces from acrylic, resin, street inks, pigment powders, fabric and, most distinctively, plastic, and treats each painting as an open experiment. Her paintings move between celebration and loss, memory and renewal. As she puts it: "More than anything, I hope my artwork inspires hope, joy, and reflection in those who experience it."

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> Updated: 2026-11-02