About Leanne:
My name is Leanne Booth. I am a full-time working artist who has a studio at my home in Bowral in the Southern Highlands of NSW. From this base I work to create original paintings and artworks for entry into prizes, solo and group exhibitions and private commissions.
My painting style ranges from contemporary realism through to abstract. I work predominantly with acrylics, inks and mixed media, in layers, and my paintings often begin as a random idea or set of paint strokes, which evolve until the image triggers a memory of an experience or place visited.
Over the years I have learnt to disregard the rules and work experimentally with multiple media, and love the buzz and excitement of surprise results. I still bounce between realism and abstract, but my favourite pieces are the abstract ones, with elements in them that engage with the viewer and I am thrilled when a new narrative is seen within a work.
I paint because I am compelled to record my emotive responses to the world around me. The world is complex, ever changing, oftentimes difficult but my preference is to try to communicate an underlying sense of hope about the world’s evolution and our future.