James C. Leonard

36”x 36” Title : Walking Through the Garden Acrylic on Wood Panel 2025

“The desire to create beauty is what motivates me as an artist. Beauty generates healing. Healing is what we all need.”

– James C. Leonard

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

– Thomas Merton, American Trappist Monk

36”x 36” Title : Butterflies Released in the Garden Acrylic on Wood Panel 2025

36”x 36” Title : Heavenly Garden Acrylic on Wood Panel Framed 2025

“Leonard’s compositions move the viewer’s eye vertically or horizontally across the space. The basic movement is complicated by laters of dripped, speckled, and fragmented colors that infuse not only a rich language of color, but also a visual history left to be discovered by the eye. Leonard’s inventive layering process results in heavy impasto, or textured, surfaces with a glossy, wet shine making them particularly beautiful when seen in person.”

– Urban Tulsa Weekly, Tulsa, OK

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Red Book | James C Leonard

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White Book | James C Leonard