Jenny Leonard Art Blog

Upcoming Shows Feb 2012

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Really please to announce I will be exhibited 6 of my larger scale landscape works at the annual Painting and Sculpture show at Candid Arts Trust in Angel. all paintings will be for sale and we hope to see you there for the opening on February the 9th.

The WeareVV collective exhibition:

I was a part of the 'Show Your Face' show which is open until February 1st so get down to Cultivate on Vyner street if you're in the East London area. Amelias Magazine has done a good review of the show here.

Upcoming Shows Jan - Feb 2012

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Please join us for the Female artists VV collective show at Cultivate Gallery, Vyner Street opening night on January 26^th at 7pm. The show is based around the theme of self portraiture and have two pieces that were made just last month for this selected submission show.

The Candid Arts Trust Painting and Sculpture show opens on February 9^th at 6.30pm and runs until the 19th. I’m thrilled to have been selected as a painter in this show after selling work last month at their Christmas Art Fair. The Candid Arts Trust is just 2 minutes walk from Angel Tube and is great space to be showing some of my larger paintings.

In Norwich in February...

For one month opening on February 6^th will be a series of contemporary landscape painting work on show at The Tea House - 5, Wrights Court Elm Hill, Norwich NR3 1HQ. This cute little cafe is nestled in the oldest street in Norwich and serves wonderful homemade cakes, sausage rolls, scones and soups using ethical and fair-trade products. They have had a series of local artists showing work on their walls and I’m very pleased to be showing some adventures from the road there and all work will be for sale.

And last but not least... Peripheral Landscapes, at House Cafe, 52 St Benedicts St, Norwich, NR2 4AR.

House Cafe is opposite the Arts Centre in town and I will be showing a few more plaster landscapes on their lovely deep navy blue walls after the huge success of the work which sold out when shown last year in the Forum in the Elements Show. House Cafe have a constantly changing exhibition every six weeks and promote local artists and art students. They also do a fabulous iced coffee, in house baked goods from local fresh ingredients, and tasty chai teas. All artwork will be available for sale.

Hope to see you at some of the exhibitions and shows and happy new year!

Upcoming Exhibitions - January 2012

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Happy new year to all! This month I will be showing at The Rumsey Wells: 'Art in the Underbelly' as part of this years 'Submit and Exhibit' group show. Opening night is on January 12th at 8pm.

Art in the Under Belly is creative exhibition and performance space in Norwich, UK. Housed beneath The Rumsey Wells, its aim is to offer artists the opportunity to exhibit in an intriguing and unusual environment.

Far from being another gallery, the space is a converted cellar packed into intimate surroundings. There are no white walls or large floor spaces, instead the walls and the space retain much of their original character adding to the individuality of the surroundings. The space is open Monday to Friday, 1-3pm and 12-5pm on Saturdays.

Showcasing new works or work previously not exhibited in Norwich, its monthly private views are based not only around the art on show but also a program of live music and DJ's, the aim being to bring another element to the already burgeoning Norwich arts scene. - Luke Emery Curator

I am also showing two self portrait paintings as part of the emerging female artist group the WEAREVV collective. Opening night is January 26th at 6pm and runs until February 1st at Cultivate, Vyner Street, E2 9HA, London.

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) Our 2012 members showcase exhibition is therefore centred on the theme-the self portrait. In so doing we have curated a show that is not only breathtakingly beautiful; but which also examines the way in which female artists perceive themselves, and the darker undertones therein." - WeareVV

Hope to see some of you at the private views nights in Norwich and London this month!

It's December so Happy New Year... Things to come...

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I always get a little reflective at this time of year. I'm not sure if it’s the full moon, the snow, the Christmas spirit or the dawn of a new chapter but I thought I ought to end the year with a short and sweet blog post. I always count things in eras and I know as the clock strikes 12 when I’m in Frankfurt this year for new years I shall be thinking of all the things I want to do in 2012.

Firstly, thank you to anyone who stops by and reads this, wherever you've come from, whoever you are! I have had an excellent year and a record number of sales and commissions along with several art shows and exhibitions across the UK, which have lead me to say goodbye to some paintings which I had become very fond of, alas they have now left me and are off out into the world to find a new home, so thank you for all your support.

A quick rundown of the year?

I have been showing work in Notting Hill with Debut Contemporary Gallery for the last three months and just a few weeks ago was selected for my first art fair with the Candid Arts Trust in Angel. Both of which have been learning experiences for my artistic career. I’ve had mural commissions from Comm-Tech and Age Norfolk in Norwich, both of which had some very nice press coverage. I was even featured on a 20-second filler on the breakfast of BBC Anglia News at 7am in the morning! (THAT was a proud moment, especially seeing my name come up as ‘Jenny Leonard – Artist’)

I had my ‘Debut Day’ at the gallery and at the click of a retweet and a generous mention from John Jones London and Amelia’s Magazine I was a happy little artist making collages in the window all day. Now that’s something. Yes 2011 let me to succumb and join Twitter. Yes it’s useful, but for a moment there I was doing everything in 140 characters or less, even speech, thank goodness that’s stopped now. Yes in 2011 I have become largely more net-savvy. I mean just look at how many clickable and useful links I have inserted haphazardly into this post. I hear that’s good for ratings right? I even have a facebook page you can like, does that even help my paintings? But you name it, I'm trying it.

This year I’ve had time to actually make work and enter all competitions I found at the zap of a tweet. Whilst some hit me in the face with a big harsh rejection in my inbox others were surprisingly lucky and I even got into some great ones. These included Drawing Crowds at The Stone Space in London, Brinkmanship at the Coast Arts Festival in Norfolk, The Eastern Open at the Kings Lynn Arts Centre and Elements, Material Worlds, at The Forum in Norwich where I was happy to see all three of my plaster landscapes sell within an hour of the private view night. (Those little red dots scattered near the things you create really do make the work worthwhile)

Earlier last month I launched my new website www.jenny-leonard.com so please do stop by for a visit and a browse if you haven't done so already. Until the end of this year and probably trickling into the next, my work can be seen in the little gallery space (dare I call it a solo show) in the upstairs of Anteros Art Foundation in Norwich. It’s the one next to King of Hearts Cafe. Maybe my work will migrate down to the cafe next year where actual Earthlings hang out and drink sweet lattes from tall glasses and chat. Miracles do happen.

So what’s next? Well early next year I will be exhibiting in a group show in Norwich, Art at the Underbelly at the Rumsey Wells. The work will be available for sale and opens in January. I have also entered my books into a competition called ‘Turn the Page’ which will be selected soon and exhibited in the grand space at The Forum in Norwich. Lots of exciting work based around the form of the book will be on display, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for that one. I'm thrilled to be saying that 2 of my paintings have just been selected for the self portrait group show in January at the 'Show Your Face' exhibition with the VV collective for emerging female artists at Cultivate in Vyner Street, London.

And finally, I have started on some new painting / collage work, thanks to my fellow artist and friend Beth Nicholas who provided me with some off cuts of her beautiful work which you can see here. Which I have included in some new landscapes. We hope that 2012 will bring some more colloborations for us to make work together. So at the risk of blabbering on in this blog and thinking I have had some sort of artistic epiphany whilst plonking away on my keyboard I shall leave you with a few images of some of my new stuff and wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. All the best... Jenny.

Angel Christmas Show - Candid Arts Dec 9th - 11th.

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The Angel Christmas Art Fair weekend went very well with a selection of painting work and plaster landscapes sold over the three days, here are some shots of the event at the Candid Arts trust in Angel, London:

Opening night

My stand at the fair.

Close up of plaster landscapes available to buy.

More work available to see what was on show here:
www.jenny-leonard.com

Latest Exhibition November - December 2011

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Jenny Leonard 'Distances'
www.jenny-leonard.com

Private View at the Gallery December 8th - 5 - 7pm

I am please to announce that I am now showing some of my plaster landscapes at the Anteros Arts Foundation in the lead up to Christmas. A selection of canvases and framed work will be available for sale. This includes some of my recent collage and painting work. The show will be on display in the gallery upstairs. To see some more of my plaster paintings from the series please click here.

Situated in Norwich city centre, Anteros Arts is just a few minutes walk from the city's Cathedral, past Tombland and historic quarter of Elm Hill. You’ll reach the River Wensum and once over the bridge you’ll see the corner façade of the King of Hearts Café.

7 - 15 Fye Bridge Street
Norwich
Norfolk

NR3 1LJ

Anteros Arts Foundation is committed to developing the arts in Norwich and the area, offering arts courses and bespoke tuition as well as presenting professional exhibition spaces both in Norwich city centre and the rural gallery at Bergh Apton. Housed in a beautiful Tudor building means Anteros has rooms and halls full of character and is great new place for me to exhibit work. I hope you can make it down to see my show if you happen to be in the Norfolk area. In the mean time please check out my new website at www.jenny-leonard.com

Buy Limited Edition Artist Book 'The Place'

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In edition to this artist book being available online I have also launched a new art website which showcases my entire painting portfolio. Check out www.jenny-leonard.com for information regarding artwork, commissions, murals, and recent painting work now for sale.

The Place by Journey through materials, memory and text. |

This Artist book has been self published and shows a selection of visual work and excerpts from journals,
letters and sketchbooks from travels in Canada, America and New Zealand. The book spans the years
of my artistic practice with an overview of painting, collage, drawing and writing. It is available to buy
for a limited time by clicking the link above, and sums up where I find my inspiration, ideas and
influences for new work from the landscape.

Some quotes about my work:

"Through her work and travel, Jenny is on a search for 'a world within a world'. Her paintings explore the
traditional model of landscape painting via an exotic and otherworldly path. They resonate with colour and
memory, whilst retaining a universal understanding."

- - David Smith, Rise Art

"Leonard's works are both raw and inaccessible, contrasting bare hessian with the unexpectedly polished finish
of plaster. They capture movement in a strange way: a crystallised dynamism, and an estranged journeyer on the brink."

- - Sarah Ryan, Founder of online art gallery New Blood Art

Debut Contemporary Gallery

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This was my work space for a day on November 12th as I sat in Debut Contemporary Gallery for my Saturday Debut. I had a series of my painting and collage works on display upstairs in the gallery as well as a show of sketchbooks, journals and portfolios to look through.

In between escaping into an A3 sketchbook to make mountainous scenes, seascapes and open horizons I could peer up at the open window onto a busy street in Notting Hill. I think it made an impression on the work, perhaps things became more vivid and picturesque to combat the hustle and bustle of the city outside. Luckily the window provided such good people watching when I needed a break I just looked up and made strange eye contact with passerby's. It is difficult to get people into a gallery setting sometimes. People can be scared to come into an empty space, just to look at things on the wall. Kind of like a comedy sketch - watch this You Tube Clip of a Gallery Skit French and Saunders did, (at 1.58 into this clip we see what most new visitors to an art gallery do!) It is an intimidating place after all. The idea of creating a workspace in the gallery to is to get people through the doors initially, to come see how the work is made, to ponder, wander, mooch and look.

People who did come in did just that, a couple even took photographs, I mark this as a sign of a good impression if they want to take it away with them in someway. So all in all, it was nice to work outside of the studio and away from the setting I usually make work in. It felt quite like being a zoo animal with people gawking through the plane glass at me frowning, smiling or turning their noses up. Heres some work made whilst in the space:

Some of the press and advertising for the event:

Sketchbook Archive

Jenny Leonard will be at the gallery on November 12^th exhibiting a wide selection of painting and collage works and making some pieces of work live at the gallery.

She will also be showing her archive of travel sketchbooks and journals that have informed her paintings over the years. Jenny has spent time living and working in Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand, and these precious books of sketches, notes and ideas will be on display for guests to peruse to see how this creative research informs the final outcome of paintings.

Jenny spent time over the last month creating handmade painted invites for this Saturday Debut and has invited local galleries, curators and art professionals to the event to see her work and realise her ideas through the feedback and opinions of the audience from seeing this body of work together as a whole for the first time.

Some upcoming contemporary art exhibitions at Debut Contemporary Gallery in Notting Hill. We hope you can make it! Link to some of my work at Debut Contemporary Gallery

October news - Murals and Exhibitions.

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I will be showing two new collage and drawing works in the 'Brinkmanship' Contemporary Drawing Show as part of the 'COAST' the Cromer and Sheringham Arts Festival. In collaboration with the Norwich 20 group and the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society. 'Brinkmanship' opens on Saturday 22nd October at 6pm for the private view, and is on for a week at The Rocket House, The Gangway, East Promenade, Cromer, Norfolk.

COAST exhibitions and events - Brinkmanship

I will also be exhibiting some of my latest 'Accidental Landscapes' Plaster Paintings at the 'Making Space' exhibition at the Unthank Arms in Norwich.
Making Space Website

In commissions this month:
I have now completed a mural project in Norwich on Kings Street Cultural Quarter for the new Comm Tech Communications Centre. The mural depicts the timeline of the company and is on permanent display in the reception area of their new head office.

News coverage on the mural project click here.

Comm-Tech News and Information

Frieze Art Fair from my point of view...

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Maybe I don’t belong here.

As I wandered around Frieze art fair for the third year running my brain couldn’t block out the alarming insistence that maybe this particular side of the art world just isn’t me.

I make art myself, I paint, I draw, doodle, cut things up, turn things inside out, build things, muck things up, stitch, sew, throw and splatter, hell, I even occasionally write things. You’d think all this would go hand in hand with seeing works at an art fair. But I’m afraid I couldn’t see the art for the people or the outfits. I watch people circle around the art like predators approaching mercilessly ready to capture something that means something (though we’re not sure what).

Crocodile skin pointy boots and mustard yellow fitted trousers are out in the dozens, and blimey there are a lot of those circular black glasses around. And tweed. Good lord the tweed. I also quite like the jackets with suede elbow patches - Vice Magazine would have a field day here.

The point is I don’t fit in here. I don’t look like a collector, or speak like one, I don’t get excited by the arty lingo or the fancy words. Therefore it seems I can’t talk to the galleries or other collectors because I don’t fit the profile. I’m here to support ‘the work’ and perhaps that’s the gap. People are no longer LOOKING at the work. They’re taking pictures of it, or tweeting about it.

We walk around the art fair with our heads in a big foggy bloggy cloud, riddled with opinions that are 140 characters in length, retweeted if they’re witty, followed if you’re lucky, with our tweets meeting the eyes of strangers wandering around the same tent just a few feet away. Grab the FRIEZE hashtag on twitter and there’s simply no need to look at the art anymore because it’s far more fascinating to see what the people at the fair are saying about it.

I watch as people approach artworks camera first snapping away at them, hungry to clip a piece of the art for themselves and ignore any shred of momentary contemplation, eager to reduce them to the graveyard of photographs lying stagnant on a hard drive, or post them online to replicate what hundreds of others have already posted online. This is why this particular blog has no images. They aren’t necessary.

At the end of the day I flopped onto the train back home and stared at my blood shot eyes inflamed from all the looking in the dirty train window. I preferred reading the frieze art fair newspapers in the comfort of my own thought space on the carriage than I did being amongst the chaos of the fair and its okay to say that. It’s okay to say frieze just isn’t for me. It doesn’t float my boat. (Oh don’t get me started on the boat).

Next year I’ll just read the reviews and spend the time in my studio where I feel I do belong.

Drawing Crowds Exhibition 5th - 19th November

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One of my drawings has been selected in the upcoming Drawing Crowds Competition hosted at
The Stone Space www.thestonespace.co.uk

The Stone Space is a community led gallery space in Leytonstone supporting creatives from a diverse range of backgrounds and providing a space to create thought-provoking and exciting exhibitions and installations.

The exhibition will be curated by Eleanor Bedlow and Carne Griffiths, for more information visit www.drawingcrowds.co.uk

October Group Show Private View

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Please email the gallery or me if you would like to be put on the guest list to the next Debut Contemporary opening night on October 5th.

I will be showing some more painting works along with the other debut artists. Last opening proved to be a very busy and exciting event, with stacks of great paintings and sculptures to see and some performance art in the basement, so do come along!

First Wednesday @ Debut Contemporary from Debut Contemporary on Vimeo.

The Artist Pitch - Debut Contemporary

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I have been drawing since I can remember, and if you’d asked me back then at the age I am in the photo I would have just said ‘I’m going to be an artist.’ Now? I think I have a problem with that word, because it’s tough knowing when you transition from being someone who makes stuff into an artist.

At yesterdays workshop the all important artists pitch reared its head. On a sunny street in Notting Hills Debut Contemporary Gallery we sat patiently and nervously and listened to one another sum up an entire history of their art practice in 60 seconds or less.

The thing is, I want to refer to myself as an artist but I’m not comfortable in saying that. What if I don’t use the right lingo in the correct tense, what if I fluff a few words when I’m trying to describe and justify my work? What if I inject a really great adjective into a really bad sentence? What if I just don’t have a good face or voice for networking in these art circles? What if (and I fear this could be the real issue) I have trouble even sounding coherent when I start to talk about my paintings?

Is it not enough to just try to look devilishly thoughtful as I ponder over the next sentence hoping that the words will fall out in the right order? Should I be more aloof. Yes I’ll be aloof. And then people will say, oh she’s just like that, she’s an artist you know. Perhaps if you ponder long enough when looking over your own self proclaimed masterpiece people will just think you’re so intelligent and philosophical that won’t dare question you.

When all is said and done, I guess the way you accompany your work at an art show should be a bonus not a hindrance, I’m not sure which I am yet. One thing struck me yesterday from a fellow artist at Debut, he said the most important thing about painting to him is for the work to be honest. And if we all just strive to be just that, guess we can’t go far wrong.

September Private View

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I am now part of the Debut Contemporary Gallery in Notting hill, my work can be seen there for the next three months, hopefully longer! The following pictures are from the Launch night at Debut Contemporary Gallery last week.

Before the Show opens:

My painting top right, and the crowd downstairs in the gallery!

Later that night...

A good start to being a Debut Artist, meeting lots of new faces. Looking forward to Tuesdays Workshops and my first Saturday Debut with some large live painting.

Assembly House Norwich Exhibition

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Above: Front cover of the September issue of Triangle Norwich Arts Magazine.

Accidental Landscapes Art Exhibition runs from September 6th to September 29th at Assembley House, Norwich. Admission: Free.

The Accidental Landscapes Series are made using a mixture of plaster, paint and ink with photographic collage on hessian canvases. All the works in the show at Assembly House are for sale in various sizes. If you wish to commission a landscape please contact me by phone or email.

Assembly House Norwich Website

SAVORR Norwich Art Show September 2011

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Savorr is a Norwich based monthly art open submission show. This month I will be exhibiting some paintings along with other local artists Benedict Hemmens, David Henry Thomas, Guy Wilkinson, Henry Jackson Newcomb, Isabella Martin, John Walters, Kate Murphy, Matt Wright, Natalie Orme, Simon Welfare and Tessa Newcomb.

◊ Private View
Friday 9th September - 6:00-8:00pm
Above Wholesome, Swan Lane, Norwich, NR2 1HZ
◊ Exhibition Open
9th-16th September - 10:00-4:00 every day apart from Sunday.
For more information visit: www.savorr.co.uk

Debut Contemporary...

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Exciting news! I have been selected as an artist and as of September 1st I will be exhibiting my newest painting works in the great gallery space at the 'Debut Contemporary' in Notting Hill. My work will be permanently on display and for sale for the next three months until December 1st. The gallery is located at 82 Westbourne Grove, Notting Hill, London, W2 5RT. just a few minutes walk from Notting Hill Tube station. The next launch night at Debut Contemporary is on September 7th, invite only, please email the gallery for further details.

Debut Contemporary Gallery Website

"DEBUT Contemporary is an innovative platform aimed at talented and ambitious artists interested and eager to turn their art practice into a successful career and a viable business. DEBUT is the only professional development and career empowerment platform of its kind in the UK and follows on from the success the founders Samir Ceric and Zoe Knight, husband and wife duo, achieved through the launch of Salon Contemporary and Wolf & Badger which earned them the industry titles such as ‘One of the UK’s Most Powerful Couples in Art & Fashion’ (The Times Magazines), ‘Kingmakers of Creative Talent’ (International Life Magazine), ‘London’s Top Tastemakers’ (Time Out London), to name a few. The couple appeared in more than 100 publications in the past 18 months and has been labelled by many industry heavyweights as ‘the force to be reckoned with".

September Launch Night:

Assembly House Norwich - Upcoming Exhibition September 2011

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After seeing the current 'Flying Colours, Fascinating Forms' exhibition on at the Assembly house I am pleased to announce that my artwork will be on show for a month starting September 6th. I will be showing some more of the 'Accidental Landscapes' series as well as some paintings produced prior to this work and some new collage works. The assembly house website can be found here at http://www.assemblyhousenorwich.co.uk/

More information coming soon!

Newblood Art Blogging - August 2011

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I have some new painting work for sale on Newblood Art

I am also now blogging for newblood to accompany my artist page and encourage people to look at my work and direct them to my new paintings for sale. I guess it is here that I will attempt to vent some of the arty free writes I have kept in my journals over the three years at art school. Click here to Read New Blood Blog Site If you get a chance to read and comment you words would be much appreciated!

Fakenham Open Art Competition September 2011

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Two more of my plaster paintings from the 'Accidental Landscapes' Series will go on show next month in the Fakenham Contemporary 2011 Open. The exhibition will be open from September 8th to Septmber 18th at the Fakenham Parish Church. For more details see Fakenham Arts Website

Work from this series was previously exhibited and all sold out in the Elements 'Material Worlds' Exhibtion at the Forum this month, lets hope for the same response! Still in stock are these postcard sized canvases, please contact if you are interested...

I will also be exhibiting some of these works at The Worstead Festival this weekend. Friday the 29th until sunday the 31st. Please click the link for more information and look out for my paintings there if you do stop by. Many more in stock so get in touch if you want to see what I have left of this work, they are going fast!

Back to Norwich - 12th July 2011

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I’m home from Costa Rica and what a beautiful welcome back to Norwich yesterday –

Finally got to see my ‘ShopArtNorwich’ display window on Westlegate Street in the city, looking really great, all put together and hung by the very helpful staff at Norwich Arts Centre. It should be on show there for a few months. So keep your eyes up at all 4 shop fronts along the road next time you are wandering up that street. Some great art from local based Norwich artists. All three paintings in my shop window are for sale - please contact me if you are interested.

AND...

At the opening of the Elements ‘Material Worlds’ Exhibition in the Forum last night I sold all three of my paintings in the show. The winner of the Bayer prize was an excellent painting of a strange world of paper elephants and plastic palm trees and a well deserved winner. The turnout was really great, lots of old NUCA familiar faces around not to mention the well deserved wine for everyone’s hard work and yummy canapés (Isn’t that what private views are all about?!)

The exhibition runs until the 28^th of July, so drop into the Forum for a peek if you have a chance. Although my work is all sold, I still have more available in this series for sale, so do contact me if you are interested. Anyway, that’s enough blog for now. Until next time...

22nd June 2011

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Well done to all NUCA students on our Degree Show last night! To celebrate the end of Uni I'm off to Costa Rica tomorrow for 2 weeks! Need to fuel my appetite for new landscapes and more paintings! I will be back on July 10th. Where I shall prompty rush up to Norwich to see my work and others in Material Worlds, Elements at the Forum in Norwich See the Exhibtion here
Private View at the Forum on July 11th at 6pm - Hope to see some of you there.

I also have work due up in Shop Art Norwich which is fantastic news, a great location on Westlegate street right in the city, so watch this space for three of my new paintings up on show. Shop Art Norwich Summer Show Page

In the mean time, have a good couple of weeks!
Any delay on replying to my emails or not answering my phone - it's because I'm away, I will get back to you as soon as possible on my return.

Degree Show - Norwich

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Opening Tuesday June 21st 5.30 - 8.00pm.
If you are in Norwich pop into Norwich University College of the Arts for a peek...

NUCA Fine Art Degree Show Website

10 minute Portraits at Ladies Night, Ramada Hotel, Norwich. June 2011

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This week, I have mostly been drawing... People!
After the big hit of an art day with The Window coffee shop in Norwich last Saturday drawing people outside in the sunshine, I've suddenly found there could be more outlets and opportunities at fairs for live portrait drawings. So last night I hopped on my bike with boards, pens, paper and stands in tow to The Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Norwich for a 'Ladies night' event with Kindersurprize-Events.Good night had by one and all, and booked in for two more fairs later in the year. Here are a few of my customers - and I'm booked for a 60th Birthday Party this weekend for caricatures!

For more information see Portrait Commissions on my website

Local Mural Work - Norwich

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AGE NORFOLK - Mural of a ballroom dancing scene. Grays Fair Court, Norwich.
Press Article Link:
Artist helping to bring ballroom memories back to life - News - Evening News

Dining Hall View of the Mural, full length 7 metres:

BBC Look East News Clip on Mural

Mural Work For Hayley at The Window Coffee, Wensum Street, Norwich, permanent outdoor mural installation:

Plus - Postcard designs at the Window, go in and have a delicious cup of coffee and pick up a free postcard today!

New Blood Art

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I am represented by New Blood Art with this particular series of work. These are a mixture of contemporary landscape paintings using of acrylic paint, collage and drawing. They are available to buy directly with New Blood on their online commercial platform for emerging artists. Please click the link to be taken directly to my page
Jenny Leonard - New Blood Art Artists Page.

London Cityscape Murals - British Airways Commissions

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For further details on ordering corporate artwork see Commissions on my new website.

Mural for Winter Olympic Function in 2010 at District 319 Vancouver, Commissioned by IMG Media for British Airways. This is the first of two London Cityscape Murals on a large free hanging canvas 7m by 2m, this piece was shipped to Vancouver for a function with British Airways.

Close up of the Artwork - Painted Mural Cityscape work featuring London Icons such as Big Ben, The London Eye, Picadilly Circus, Tower bridge, The millenium dome, black cabs, red phone boxes, and double decker buses. Painting pieces of various parts of the London city skyline to almagamate into one gigantic scene which encompasses the feel of the whole city.

Following the success of this London Mural a second piece of artwork was commissioned by British Airways for their head office at Waterside in London for the British Airways HQ Reception Desk Area. This time the project was aimed to include the airline colours with a more corporate design and feel to the cityscape. Here is the final design and the enlarged installed mural work.

Painted Freehand Final Design: (Click on images to enlarge)

Enlarged to fit the scale of the office area:

Following these two London cityscape mural projects I was featured in the BA Internal Magazine
'Up in the Air'. Here is a clip from the feature:

After this London Painting commission I was asked to write a blog for Debut Contemporary gallery in Notting Hill, London about my involvement in the project. More details about this special commission was featured on their website:

British Airways Commission Jenny Leonard

I am particularly interested in large mural commissions of this kind as it allows me to work as big as I can. This piece was entirely my own design working to a brief set by British Airways and IMG Media to ship to Vancouver to 'Welcome guests to London' in an event to promote the London 2012 olympics. It was a great success and many future projects and commissions for London Paintings came through after my work had been seen in such a unique environment. I welcome more projects of cityscapes, murals and large scale painting work and believe I can fit my style and size to any brief set, creating a piece of work tailored to suit the individual or company.

Paintings for Sale

2010-02-10T10:04:00.001-08:00

Two paintings above are currently in stock and for sale, please drop me a line if you are interested. They are large free hanging canvases, with a top and bottom baton included - ready to hang. Black and white acrylics and emulsion paint from female imagery from a google search.

'Showcase' London. Emerging Artists Platform.

2010-01-04T12:37:00.001-08:00

Showcase Art Exhibitions are fortnightly and I have exhibitied and sold work twice with their one night platform to promote and support emerging artists. Above: A mixture of my early graffitti style artwork and some textured collages made up of square collaged tiles. This show took place at Cafe 1001 in Bricklane.

Above: image from Showcase Exhibition at Richmix, Bethnal Green, showing some of the 'Accidental Landscapes' series.

Collage / Assemblage Artwork

2009-01-21T12:24:00.000-08:00

Collaged from old junk: Photographs, photo negatives, string, beads, tape, old shoes, clothes, buttons, jewellery, cassette tapes, cds, and everything else! Individual collage tiles made and assembled into figurative modern artwork. These are ALL for Sale - by direct request: Click on images to see close up details of what they are made up from!

Southrise Primary School Murals

2008-08-29T01:34:00.000-07:00

As part of a refurbishment project with London Primary School Southrise, I was commissioned to paint a series of 8 murals for the stairwell. The murals included an underwater scene, a rainforest, Antartica, and Ancient Egypt. Here are some images of the murals installed at the school for the project:

Portraiture work

2007-11-13T11:33:00.000-08:00

Commission Portraits available direct. Use your own photographs and I will turn them into a painting in whatever style you like! Here are some examples from my portfolio:
Acrylics on Board:

Acrylics and Inks on Canvas Paper:

Acrylics on canvas paper framed:

Charcoals and Chalks Portrait on brown paper:
Couples - Portraiture from photograph in acrylics on board:

Inks, paints and pastels stylized portraits:

Recycled Junk made into Artwork!

2007-09-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

Stenciled cassette tapes mounted on board and box frame ready to hang, these pieces can be made to commission with your favourite musical icon.

Recycled materials into pieces of art - unwanted floppy disks and cds made to commission from all sorts of materials - if you have an idea and a collection of old junk I'll try to make make it into a cool piece of contemporary art for your home!

Murals

2007-01-08T14:30:00.000-08:00

Mural in Agios Stefanos Cafe Neon, Crete:

Mural in Crete for Sasteria Art Centre:

Mural for a Beauty Salon in Oxfordshire:

South Park Primary School, a mural to promote healthy eating at school located in the dining hall:

Artwork and Murals completed in New Zealand

2006-06-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

Peppertree Lodge Hostel, Paihia, Bay of Islands.

2 Murals commissioned for front desk and lounge areas:

Southern Alpine Recreation LTD. Remarkables Ski Fields. Queenstown.

2 Large Murals Commissioned:

Large Ski / Snowboard / Alpine Scene Murals in the Rentals Store of the Remarkables Ski Resort.

Graffiti / Street Style

2006-04-27T12:06:00.000-07:00

Graffiti paintings and spray painted stencil work. Artwork made by commission, carying sizes and materials made to order, enquire on website.

Commissioned London Paintings on Canvas

2006-04-27T11:51:00.000-07:00

London Cityscape paintings by commission:

Paintings with acrylic on canvas of London Icons:
Tower Bridge, Red phone boxes, Big Ben, London city sky line, St Pauls Cathedral. The paintings above have been commissioned from various corporate London offices and private sales. Please enquire by email or phone if you would like a cityscape painting of your choice.

Commission Polo / Equine Paintings

2006-04-21T05:36:00.000-07:00

Commission specific equine paintings from your own photographs or your favourite horse icons. These Polo paintings are from a clients choice of photographs. The pieces of work are painted with acrylic on canvas ready to hang, 100 x 70cm in size. Available in full colour or black and white, please enquire within for more details, sizes and styles.

Miscellaneous Commissions

2006-04-18T09:47:00.000-07:00

Distortion - Portraiture work.

2006-04-17T11:36:00.000-07:00

The Lennons Bar, Commissioned Paintings.

2006-04-17T02:40:00.000-07:00

Great Dunmow, Essex.