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JAMES LEONARD



CONTEMPORARY ARTIST



"PERFECTION IS ACHIEVED NOT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO ADD, BUT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO TAKE AWAY". - James leonard



CURRENT WORKS





JAMES LEONARD - FIRST IMPRESSION



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - FIRST LOOK



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - UP IN THE SKY



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 48" X 48"



JAMES LEONARD - MORNING GLORIES SPEAKING



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 36" X 48"



JAMES LEONARD - WIND IN MOVEMENT



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 48" X 48"



JAMES LEONARD - YOU AND ME



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - RIVERS RUN WILD



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 41.5" X 30"



JAMES LEONARD - BLUE LANDSCAPE



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - FIRST LIGHT



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 18" X 24", FRAMED



JAMES LEONARD - EYE TO EYE



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 18" X 24'", FRAMED



JAMES LEONARD - INSIDE TROPICAL GARDENS



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 18" X 24", FRAMED



JAMES LEONARD - SOLO



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 12" X 12"



JAMES LEONARD - BIRDS IN MIND



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 12" X 12"



JAMES LEONARD - YESTERDAY'S THOUGHTS



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 12" X 12"



JAMES LEONARD - SEASHELL



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 8" X 8"



JAMES LEONARD - MY BIRD, YOUR BIRD



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 8" X 8"



JAMES LEONARD - RISING



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 8" X 8"



RETROSPECTIVE OF SELECTED SOLD WORKS





JAMES LEONARD - INDOORS IS OUTDOORS



JAMES LEONARD - EVERYDAY MOVEMENT



JAMES LEONARD - LIGHT IN THE GARDEN



JAMES LEONARD - COLORS FROM MY GARDEN



JAMES LEONARD - SILENT WINGS



JAMES LEONARD - RAINBOWS



JAMES LEONARD - FALL RHAPSODY



JAMES LEORNARD - TRANSFORMATION



JAMES LEORNARD - TRANSFORMATION



JAMES LEONARD





Lives and works in San Francisco, California James Leonard is one of California’s leading abstract expressionist painters. Working with an extended palette knife and acrylics on canvas, he creates bold horizontal and vertical strokes in strong colors in order to trigger the viewer’s emotions. This basic movement is complicated by the inventive layering of dropped, speckled and fragmented colors that create a sense of additional depth. Leonard says, I’m pulling paint, layering one layer at a time, which creates a sense of history in the painting. It’s like looking at a fence post that’s been repainted over a period of time. You can see the different colors and layers.

Leonard’s paintings have ambient landscape qualities and can have thirty or forty layers in one painting. His final touch employs a technique he calls sgrafito — scraping lines through the upper layers, so the colors of the ground layers show through.

The German painter Gerhard Richer has influenced his style, approach, and directness. James Leonard’s paintings have been exhibited internationally. His works also reside in private and corporate art collections across the United States and Europe.







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