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



CURRENT WORKS





JAMES LEONARD - THOUGHTS FROM MY GARDEN



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - DANCE IN THE EVENING



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 72"



JAMES LEONARD - MAUI WATER FALLS



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 72"



JAMES LEONARD - AFTER KNOWN



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - NORTHEREN SLOPE



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - SPRING WISTEREIA



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 72"



JAMES LEONARD - HEAVEN DESCENDING



ACRYLIC ON PANEL 48" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - EAST AND WEST



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 35" X 72"



JAMES LEONARD - UNSEEN MIGRATION



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 36" X 36"



JAMES LEONARD - ALL THE FLOWERS



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 12" X 12", FRAMED 19.5 " X 19.5"



JAMES LEONARD - INSIDE YOUR GARDEN



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 12" X 12", FRAMED 19.5 " X 19.5"



JAMES LEONARD - GARDEN DREAMS OF YOU



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 12" X 12", FRAMED 19.5 " X 19.5"



JAMES LEONARD - GAREDN VIEWS



ACRYLIC ON CANVAS 12" X 12", FRAMED 19.5 " X 19.5"



JAMES LEONARD - BIRD'S EYE VIEW



ACRYLIC ON WOOD 12" X 12"



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 - 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 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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