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Anne Leonard
Sketching
at her home in Arizona. |
Anne Leonard has enjoyed drawing and painting all her life. Early on
she studied art at the University of
Texas. After raising a family and retiring from a career in
government, she now devotes full time to her painting. She
moved to Arizona three years ago to be
near family. Previously she lived in Reston Virginia where she
pursued her art.
She exhibited locally, was accepted into a number of juried shows
and won awards there through the League of
Reston Artists and the Vienna Arts Society. Since moving to
Tucson she has become a juried member of the Southern Arizona
Watercolor Guild and is a member of Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona. She has shown her
work in SAWG exhibits as well as other venues in the Tucson area and in
Tubac.
Always
exploring, she enjoys the challenges of various media, and is
especially intrigued by the challenges and
results that can be achieved in watercolor and mixed water media.
Presently she is focusing on acrylic, mixed media, and
collage.
She attempts to
capture the many moods of nature in landscapes, and the spirit of
living creatures in her drawings and
paintings of them. At the same time she is most intrigued
by the freedom and expressiveness that can be achieved in
more abstract forms and usesof color.
Ms. Leonard has
lived in and traveled to many places, in the United States and
abroad. She has appreciated each experience and attempted to express the unique flavors of each in her art. She received her Bachelor of Arts at the University
of Texas and a masters degree in anthropology at the University of Montana, Missoula. She studied
watercolor withJean Gill, a nationally recognized watercolorist and continuesto take classes to develop
her skills and explore new techniques and media.
updated
07/30/2010 |
