Soldiers Hill Artist Collective - SHAC
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Alan Leishman For me, painting is about the perception of the visual world and getting some kind of equivalent in terms of paint, in a coherent and telling way. Most of my work now centres on landscape or still life. Colour, tones, shapes, intervals, lines or angles – some of these abstract elements suggest an idea for a picture and the means by which to tackle it. I paint from oil sketches done on the spot or, increasingly, from drawings or colour notes. I have always aimed at seeing any subject as colour harmony. I use oil paint as a thick, clotted material brushed with broken edges so that objects and colours in the picture emerge from a mass of abstract marks, leaving the viewer in no doubt that they are looking at a painting.’ Recently, Alan has turned his attention to earth pigments he has found in road cuttings and quarries, and has completed abstract works focussing on the qualities of those colours. Alan Leishman graduated from Farnham Art School (now University of the Creative Arts) UK, to work in advertising and later newspaper layout before moving to Australia. He has won a number of awards, including a selection for London’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. His work can be found in private and public collections in Australia, UK, Europe, USA and Canada. EM: [email protected] |
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