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Leon Barnes
Self taught Oil Painter, only rediscovering the love of painting, while in lockdown december 2020 after DJ business stopped due to lockdown.
Needing some presents for family gifts, & no funds, tough times, a stored loft gift from 2009, a oil painting set, some old canvases, started the journey.. A love of painting
Landscape oil painting. Contemporary. Impressionist painter.
Portrait & wildlife, Photo realism
Preferring ‘Alla Prima’, or ‘wet on wet’ technique, & traditional painting styles.
Images taken from imagination, images & photographs.
Commissions welcome. Teaching & Demo Available
– Poster & sign writer at 16 years old 1989
– Studied A Level Art – Welwyn Garden City 1991
– HND & Degree Model making Hatfield University 1995-98
– Modelmaker 1998-2001, worked on prototypes for
Disney, Mattle, Cadburys, Guinness, Starwars, Hasbro, Mcdonalds & Burgerking toys
including 1/3 scale pueter R2-D2, see Bryan May
– Films ‘Batman begins’ & ‘Flyboys’
Professional Dj & Karaoke host for the last 20 years. 2004 – 202?
LATEST NEWS
2024
Living Crafts thusday 9th May 2024 at Hatfield House
Mardleybury Gallery 6-9 Paintings by Leon Barnes on display (Thursday to Saturday 11am -4pm)
Lister Hospital Gallery 6-9 Paintings raising money for hospital
BTC building Stevenage gallery walls – all year
Wenta building Potters Bar gallery walls – all year
Commissions welcome
Lessons available Alla Prima Landscape
2023
Mardleybury Gallery 6-9 Paintings by Leon Barnes on display (Thursday to Saturday 11am -4pm)
Lister Hospital Gallery 6-9 Paintings raising money for hospital
BTC Open Studios
BTC building Stevenage gallery walls – all year
Wenta building Potters Bar gallery walls – all year
2022
Commissions x5 (Beloved Pets)
Nottingham gallery SAA finalist, ‘Heidi dog’ on display from 30th September 2022
8 Paintings by Leon Barnes on display at the Mardleybury Gallery (Thursday to Saturday 11am -4pm)
HVA open studios 2022 10th September- October town Center
Letchworth open 2022 September
Started Teaching Lessons Nov 2022
2021
Commissions x3 (album cover for ‘Exact’, Milton Keynes canal, ‘The Marquees of Granby’ pub)