For more information and commission paintings please see www.jenny-leonard.com
DegreeArt Gallery Commission
I was recently asked by Degree Art Gallery for a Landscape painting featuring the Brazilian cityscape Rio De Janeiro. The client wanted it to be in the collage style I use in my landscapes, so some of the city buildings and tiny boats are carefully cut out painted pieces of paper. It also features the cable car on Sugarloaf Mountain include and the giant statue of Christ The Redeemer atop Corcovado mountain. In 2016 the Olympics will take place there - so in light of this I can imagine I will be doing some more Rio painting commissions over the next couple of years!
For more information and commission paintings please see www.jenny-leonard.com
For more information and commission paintings please see www.jenny-leonard.com
GoGoGorillas Norwich 2013
Video: Painting the gorillas for the Norwich art trail opening in June this year. There is a second round for sponsors to pick their artwork coming up this month. A few more of my designs will be on display and I'd love the chance to get my painty hands on some more of these beasts! Watch the video and for more commission artwork please visit www.jenny-leonard.com
Art Shows in London before Christmas!
They will be at a Christmas art fair on December 1st at West Hants club in Bournemouth. One of my plaster landscapes has been chosen for The Brick Lane Galleries Christmas Pop Up Show December 12th - 22nd, and at the Wimbledon Christmas Art Fair in the gallery above the library from December 17th - 22nd.
'Box Galleries, ‘The Moving Exhibition’ is a platform for both talented emerging artists as well as established artists in the UK and Internationally. Box represents a variety of different dynamic styles – a range of original, accessible, contemporary art.'
I am also very pleased to say I have been commissioned to paint two Gorillas for Norwichs GoGoGorilla Art Trail opening next year. I will be painting live in the open studio in Castle Mall Norwich as of December 5th for two weeks so pop in and see me!
For any more commission artwork or sale enquires please see my website www.jenny-leonard.com
Art News in November / December 2012
Opening thursday 6th Dec 7.30pm. 222 Bethnal Green Road, featuring the work of 40 artists.
I will also be exhibiting paintings in the Fisher Theatre, Bungay, Norfolk for the Affordable Christmas Art Fair. Dec 10th -14th Example of my paintings and artwork can be found at www.jenny-leonard.com
This month I worked with The Challenge Network to produce a 4 metre mural at 'The Big Sleep Out' event in West London. Working with around 150 young people in 20 minute workshop slots, the participants were encouraged to paint a self portrait, handprint or message to help promote the event and raise awareness of homelessness in the UK. The finished mural piece:
Mural workshops and painting activity days can be arranged for all types of parties and events, please contact me for more details and check out my website.
Art Shows in Norfolk and other things! Oct - Nov 2012
There is an upcoming Charity Art Auction in Norwich with The Green House Trust near the Forum. I will have three pieces up for sale at the auction. The online catalouge will go live on November 24th with the final auction off of December 8th.
I also have a whole bunch of art work up at The Green Grocers cafe gallery on Earlham Road in Norwich. All of these pieces are framed and for sale. One piece of the old Burrells Shop Front on Unthank Road was recently shortlisted for the Holt Art Prize.
I have been working on some new London Landscape Commissions and pieces, you can see them here on my website and I am pleased to be working with Box Galleries who currently have 4 of my plaster landscape pieces on tour in and around London at their moving art exhibition.
Finally there is a possibility I may have work at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay for their upcoming affordable art fair opening on December 10th so watch this space!... and in the mean time head down to Norwich Castle for the Art show and The Green Grocers for a distinctly better coffee than the castle!
Go Go Gorillas Norwich 2013
"Delivered by leading arts and education company Wild in Art and local charity Break,
the gorillas will be building on the success of the Go Elephants parade
in 2008. Residents and visitors will be able to follow the trail around
Norwich’s streets, parks and open spaces.
Sponsored by local businesses, the sculptures will excite, delight and raise significant funds for charity
when they are auctioned off at the end of the parade."
Gogogorillas are currently seeking sponsors and artists to participate so check out their website for more details of how to get involved. Or get in touch with Martin Green on 01603 670107, email martin.g@break-charity.org
Lets hope I manage to get some sponsors and secure a few gorillas to paint and install next year. Heres a sneak peek at my designs to cover them so far....
October 2012 Art News
I will be exhibiting a painting at :Vision & Reality: Norwich Castle Open Art Show 2012
Norwich Castle Museum
20 October - 9 December
Norwich Castle is hosting its third Open Art Show. The exhibition will be shown in conjunction with Cedric Morris and Christopher Wood: Forgotten Friends. Artist John Wonnacott will chair a panel of selectors to create a show from the wealth of artistic talent in East Anglia.
I am also involved in COAST 2012 with Karen Steadman of Art of the Ordinary we will be hosting a days workshop titled 'Make your mark' please come along and help us create an amazing piece of work!
Signature Art Prize 2012
SIGNATURE ART PRIZE OPENING GALA - OLD SPITAFIELDS MARKET
The pop up exhibition hosted by Degree Art was a huge success and the show of all finalists will now continue in their gallery on Vyner Street, Bethnal Green until the end of November.
Over 500 submissions were received, from student and graduate artists from around the world. Entering it's fourth year, the celebrated Signature Art Prize presents a fresh and exciting award for the most promising artists of today. The competition invites artists worldwide to apply for a chance to win one of five £1000 cash prizes.
My piece titled 'Hiker' is from the Accidental Landscapes / Plaster Landscapes series and has been shortlisted in Mixed Media Category.
It is now open for YOU to vote in the PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD for another cash prize! So please do get voting for me it would be greatly appreciated! VOTE FOR ME!
August 2012 Norwich Open Art Competition
A huge thank you also to Mustard Coffee Bar Norwich for displaying some of my street art style paintings last minute in their new art hang at the cafe. Check out their website and pop along for good food and great coffee soon!
Thats all from me this month. I am away on holiday until the 26th of August and will be able to respond to any emails then! Happy summer! Jen
Holt Art Prize 2012
I am pleased to say my painting 'Sacrifice' has been shortlisted for the Holt Art Prize. The winner will be announced by John Hurt CBE at the Private View on the evening of Monday 16th July. The exhibition will be open to the public from Tuesday 17th July, and run throughout the festival until Saturday 28th July from 12noon to 5.00pm daily at the Nicholson Gallery, Cairns Centre, Gresham's School, Holt, NR25 6EA.
The Space Norwich - Artwork Installation May 2012
We hope this can be the beginning of a constantly evolving art exhibition from Norfolk Artists.
David Tattersall of Secret Art Collector writes:
The Space Conference and Events Centre in Roundtree Way, Norwich, recently gathered their professional artists for the inaugural opening of the '60 Exceptional Paintings' contemporary art exhibition which also recognises H.M. The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in tandem with their new art gallery's opening.
'It's a wonderful achievement and we are very proud of launching this new visual arts centre in Norwich,' said Tom Rawls. 'Our intention - together with David and Secret Art Collector - is to deliver a very proactive Art Centre into the city of Norwich and the East Anglian community, and create opportunities for talented artists and art lovers to engage with all our planned activities.'
David Tattersall added,"I can't thank Tom and all the management team of The Space enough for providing this amazing Conference and Events Centre as a new Art Centre and Gallery for active professional artists as well as very keen amateur artists.
I am hugely grateful to The Space for allowing us to get this project off the ground and for allowing us to hang work that suits their contemporary spacious venue in Norwich. A big thank-you
to Secret Art Collector for all the hard work and dedication to pursuing opportunities,
exhibitions, sales and potential clients and passionately believing in and
representing a small selection of emerging artists.
A word from The Space about their venue:
'The Space is known for flexibility and good value
for money providing: Conference rooms, meeting rooms, training rooms, seminar
rooms, banquet halls, reception venues, board rooms and more. With space from 5
to 500 and facilities unique in Norwich, you really need to come and take a
look! Whether
you’re planning a conference, large corporate event, banquet, concert or any
large event, our main event hall boasts a large flexible space with
cutting edge production and audio equipment for up to 500 people.'
For more of my artwork and commissions please see my website
May Art Shows
There will be an amazing range artistic book creations and I will be promoting part of my own personal project 'The Place' and 'Thoughts on Walls' Take a sneek peek at the online bookstore. Where you will find the walls of Norwich plastered in chalk writings of mine. Jenny Leonard Art Books.
I am pleased to say one of my drawings will be featured in the new Norwich based art and illustration 'Sidlezine' part of a new project created by local artist Emma Ridgeway. (Links to the Sidlezine blog to follow!)
I have said a tearful goodbye to my little sketchbook full of drawings and it is now currently touring in America as part of the Art House run sketchbook project. It has recently been in the Brooklynn Art Library, here are some amazing pictures of all the thousands of sketchbooks available to read... What a project! Read their fantastic blog about it all here
Wonder if anyone has flicked through mine yet?! I left my twitter address in the back of it so I'm dying to get that tweet from someone who happened to read it over coffee across the world!
Lots of art commissions happening this summer, and equally lots of competitions I want to enter and art shows coming up, so thats all from me... off the keyboard and back to tha paintbrushes and pens. Take a look at my website for more artwork, murals, projects and commissions: www.jenny-leonard.com
April 11th - In the Daily Mirror Paper
Really excited to have my murals and paintings featured in The Daily Mirror today - had an amazing amount of hits on my new art website, lots of new enquiries and another magazine who want to feature my mural work in their commercial interiors revamp section! So long may it continue!
Read the full article here Daily Mirror
April Art Shows in Norwich
The Norwich based 'Making Space' art collective have selected 6 pieces of my work to go in the April art show at St Gregorys Centre for the Arts. See my art website for more Plaster Landscape work currently for sale or commission a new piece of artwork!
St Gregory's Centre for the Arts, St Gregory's Church, Pottergate, Norwich, NR2 1ER. Just by the BirdCage pub in town. We hope to see you there!
Friday 30th and Saturday 31st In Norwich...
Upcoming Shows and Exhibitions March 2012
Tin Pan Alley in Norwich presents a night market and bar with 4 floors of vintage stalls, antique stalls, clothing, jewellery, furniture and homewares. On Saturday the 24th of March from 5 - 10pm and Sunday 25th of March 11 - 4pm. I will be showing some paintings in the fantastic space opposite Cinema City Norwich. A previous commission client are now using my drawings on their website at: 'The Good Room' will also have a stall selling upcycled furniture. Make it down to the Market for a unique night of entertainment, shopping and interesting things to browse and oogle at. We hope you can make it.
I had a successful talk and great response with my work at the Wymondham Art Society this month with a 2 hour informal talk on portraiture and caricatures. I will be doing more like this in the Norfolk area soon so please contact me for further information.
I will be showing some new painting work with the 'Norwich Craft Village' on St Benedicts St this month on the 30th and 31st of March. They will be showing a range of painting, textiles, ceramics, wood, glass and jewellery. With free entry and Arts from Norfolk and Scandinavia on show for two days at St Margarets.Next month on April 14th I will be doing some live portraiture and caricatures for the day of the Norwich Makers Market from 11am - 4pm on Earlham road in the Golden Triangle. There promises to be lots of other interesting little bits to find around the market showcasing local Norwich talent. So pop down and see us!
In May I will be showing my artist books with Turn The Page at the Forum for an artists book fair and exhibition. More details to come sooner the time!
In other news I have a sketchbook on display at the Brooklyn Art Library in New York City and touring show with 'The Sketchbook Project 2013' Sponsored by the Art House Heres a couple of images sneek preview from my sketchbook titled 'Tips for a Nice Existence'.
I will also have a snippet of some of this work published in the limited edition book about the project available to buy at the end of the year.
And finally a big thank you to freelance writer Josh Gibbs who wrote a fantastic blurb about our current landscape show at the art shop project on Earlham road:
“Emerging artist Jenny Leonard Explores the subject of landscape as a platform for the self to traverse, bringing about new discoveries of the changing nature of perceived reality. The travelling mind and its surroundings are key to the nature of the work. Indeed she adopts strong contrasts with her choice of media that render elements of the work to become simultaneously both microcosmic and more immediately tangible.”
The Arts Shop Project - Norwich
'Not Another Landscape' OPENING February 23rd at 5.30pm with www.jenny-leonard.com
I am pleased to announce I will be showing at this new arts location in Norwich in February and March. 40% of sales from the show will be donated to the NANSA charity the Norfolk sector of SCOPE. The landscape art exhibition will open its doors on February 23rd at 5.30 - 7pm with drinks and will run for the following month at the gallery. I will be showing alongside artists Chris Angell, Lorraine Forbes and Peter Rodulfo. I will be showing a selection of Plaster Paintings and Collage work at the exhibition all will be available to buy directly from the artshoproject.
Artshoproject
Gallery & Shop
The NANSA Art shop Project is located at 1 Earlham House Shops, Earlham Road, Norwich NR2 3PD. It includes an art gallery, shop and print workshop. They will soon be launching a website with and online gallery. Please see the Artshoproject section of the NANSA website for more details.The Artshoproject aims to provide a showcase for the work of artists from NANSA, other organisations and local artists in the wider community and offer training opportunities across a range of skills to young adults of varying abilities and enhance their employment & career prospects.
We hope you can make the show!
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