I will be teaching an 8 week Painting Course in Mangawhai, October to December
Oil Painting with Alkyd Oil paints
Tuesday afternoons, 1 - 4pm
To inquire contact me here or for course description and registration form go here.
Oil Painting with Alkyd Oil paints
Tuesday afternoons, 1 - 4pm
To inquire contact me here or for course description and registration form go here.
Opposites inform every part of my work
I explore the possibilities of working with opposites: light - dark, conceal - reveal, absence - presence, opaque - translucent, push - pull.
To create harmony you need to experience disharmony. There is a constant play between the opposites - the energies that float between anxiety, tension, disharmony, chaos, and harmony, equilibrium, tranquility, balance.
I explore the possibilities of working with opposites: light - dark, conceal - reveal, absence - presence, opaque - translucent, push - pull.
To create harmony you need to experience disharmony. There is a constant play between the opposites - the energies that float between anxiety, tension, disharmony, chaos, and harmony, equilibrium, tranquility, balance.
Dynamic movement
"There is movement and there is movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement. This special movement was utilised by the futurists as a new and hitherto unknown phenomenon in art..."
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 – 1935)
"There is movement and there is movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement. This special movement was utilised by the futurists as a new and hitherto unknown phenomenon in art..."
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878 – 1935)
'SOURCE’ 2019, Oil paint on canvas, 1000 x 1000 mm. $2,850
The inspiration for this painting lies in imagery around elements of land and sea, coastal estuaries and tidal flow, deltas and rivers; constantly in flux, changing environments due to nature’s rhythms, tidal cycles and weather patterns. The painting 'SOURCE' is loosely influenced by a NASA satellite photograph of the Tasman Glacier area in the Southern Alps of Aoteroa New Zealand. |
'TREES, MANGAWHAI BEACH’ 2020, Oil paint on gessoed Fabriano paper, 760 x 580 mm. Not currently for sale.
This work will be exhibited in my joint exhibition remix, opening 28 January 2021 at Mangawhai Artists Gallery. |
FEATURED EARLIER WORKS
DRIFT, 2017 - acrylic paint on canvas, 1200 x 1200 mm SOLD
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ELEMENTS, 2018 - acrylic paint on canvas, 1200 x 1200 mm NFS
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"Leach’s new works explode with abstract energy, new vigour and freedom after an extended European sojourn. Her approach is intuitive - she paints autonomously, free from external influence - avoiding subject and genre yet there is structure, line and rhythm. Her mark making skills are strong as she plays with swirls, splashes and drips - perhaps evoking Pollock and Kandinsky". Review, February 2018
