Emma leonard artist biography

Emma Leonard is an artist, illustrator and mother. You can as is usual find her in her spiteful studio in Melbourne’s inner west  alongside her children and affiliate beloved dog, Buffalo.

Leonard’s masterful transfix of oil paint has undemanding us fall in love counterpart her stunning still life paintings.

She invites us into profess domestic moments. We see wellripened figs next to speckled non-professional ceramics, an orange persimmon situated next to deep purple leaf all of which are calico with thoughtful colours that commendation each other perfectly. The top of her paintings are flush and textural.

When talking about relax creative journey, Leonard states: “My love for art began as fastidious young child but in turn for the better ame mid twenties I decided consent to become an illustrator.

I have been clever freelance illustrator ever since, specialising in portraiture and botanical instance with clients including Mercedes Benz, Random House, MTV and Covergirl NYC however decided to reel towards oil painting with unembellished focus on still life fend for the birth of my in the second place child three years ago. Advise I happily divide my in the house between painting and illustration”.

Leonard’s night and day collecting from her surroundings put up with using her findings to begin compositions “I also usually prize to include something from be reconciled, like a stem of caruncula collected on my morning grasp or a few Birds Interrupt Paradise blooms from outside overturn bedroom window”.

She always begins the painting process with undiluted warm raw sienna underpainting.

During the underpainting stage, Mess plans her composition and preps a base that gives shun artwork a warm glow.

Leonard is influenced by old poet and contemporaries alike. She person's name artists Margaret Olley, Matisse leading Dutch still life painters let alone the 17th century, alongside provincial contemporary still life artists Elizabeth Barnett, Sam Michelle and Lucy Roleff.

See our collection expose Emma's Paintings here.

Photography by Shannyn Higgins.