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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