ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Jesse Leach is a Rockford artist looking to beautify neighborhoods with new murals.
You can find him at the corner of Charles Street and Center Terrace in Rockford, working on a mural he calls ‘Food For Thought.’ It was commissioned by the owners of Da Catch, which is a restaurant on that same corner.
Leach used his phone as a guide as he painted faces on the wall. He says he wasn’t initially drawn to painting when he began his journey as an artist. He used a colored pencil. It took a suggestion from another area artist to get him into the other art form…