The Awe in Silence
Height: 146cm Width: 135cm
The Awe in Silence
Height: 146cm Width: 135cm
Spirit of Place Sea
Height: 124cm Width: 105cm
Spirit of Place Sea
Height: 124cm Width: 105cm
Spirit of Place Sky
Height: 124cm Width: 105cm
Spirit of Place Sea and Spirit of Place Sky
Height: 124cm Width: 210cm
Beginnings
Height: 75cm Width: 75cm
To See Takes Time
Height: 134cm Width: 121cm
Blueprint
Height: 72cm Width: 66cm
Morning Sky
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Morning Sky
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Atmosphere
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Atmosphere and Morning Sky
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Float
Height: 36cm Width: 30cm
Camellia in the Winter Garden
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Delight
Height: 72cm Width: 66cm
Inscribed : beauty both shouts and whispers
Height: 36cm Width: 30cm
Reverie
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Passage
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Kindled
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Essence
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Resound
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Known
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Dove Grey
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
The Night Garden
Height: 56cm Width: 46cm
Sunny One and Sunny Two
Height: 24cm Width: 17cm
Sunny One
Height: 24cm Width: 17cm
Blanche (Echoes)
Height: 36cm Width: 30cm
Jaune (Echoes)
Height: 36cm Width: 30cm
Time (Echoes)
Height: 36cm Width: 30cm
To Come (Echoes)
Height: 36cm Width: 30cm
The Dance
Height: 28cm Width: 23cm
Days (Pale cerulean)
Height: 28cm Width: 23cm
Days (Costa Brava II) and March 26 11.40am (Costa Brava)
Height: 20cm Width: 27cm
Jubilant
Height: 27cm Width: 20cm
Days (Costa Brava), Days (Medium Rose), Night (Costa Brava)
Height: 20cm Width: 27cm
Sky Dance (Costa Brava), We Prayed for Rain on Parched Land, Moonrise (Costa Brava)
Height: 20cm Width: 27cm
Petite Reverie, Petite Allumée and Petite Gentillese
Height: 18cm Width: 13cm
Belonging
Height: 81cm Width: 71cm
Belonging
Height: 81cm Width: 71cm
The Psalm - Dark Silver
Height: 83cm Width: 96cm
The Peace
Height: 97cm Width: 86cm
When Night Falls
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Formation + Memory I and II
Height: 38cm Width: 30cm
Enfold
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Night Rose
Height: 50cm Width: 41cm
Prelude in Autumn Light
Height: 121cm Width: 107cm
Prelude in Autumn Light insitu
Height: 121cm Width: 107cm
White textured painting
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Sunrise
Height: 51cm Width: 40cm
Noon
Height: 51cm Width: 40cm
Rekindle
Height: 97cm Width: 86cm
The Kindness
Height: 56cm Width: 46cm
Sundown
Height: 56cm Width: 46cm
Commissioned Painting
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Commission by Leanne Thomas
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A Song For Hope
Height: 102cm Width: 102cm
Anthem of Grace
Height: 122cm Width: 102cm
Whispered Words
Height: 87cm Width: 76cm
Leanne Thomas is a Sydney based artist known for her floral oil paintings. Previously an art director in the advertising world, Leanne’s practice grew from a desire to express her love of nature, classical art and beauty. Ultimately, Leanne is committed to creating art that exudes light, life and hope in a way that might resonate with every viewer.
Neither From Nor Towards
A new body of work, a year in the making.
The poppies still remain as I continue to ponder the words of T S Elliot in his poem ‘Burnt Norton’, the first of the ‘Four Quartets’
‘At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
The poppies in each piece remain as the ‘still points’ – moments of pause within a world that turns around us. Each speak of a point at which time stands still for a moment – the transient life of a flower fixed in time – at which point it can be viewed and its fragile strength felt.
The landscapes in the backgrounds have become more abstract in nature – to me they are landscapes of memory – some hazy some more distinct. Scenes in which a still fixed moment gives clarity and a pause from momentum ‘Neither movement from nor towards, a place where past and future gather’ (Burnt Norton, T S Elliot)
For a time over this past year of making work I felt need to pause, to refresh. The pause produced a set of paintings made in grey scale. Made by mixing all of the colours on the palette. Layers of colour that have produced a set of grey, quiet and still paintings. Places to stop ponder reflect and take breath.
Leanne Thomas
August 2023
‘Time past and time future
What might have been and
what has been
Point to one end, which is always present’
Burnt Norton T S Elliot
Leanne Thomas Studio Interview
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Solo Exhibition Neither From Nor Towards, Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney
2022 Solo Exhibition Daybreak to Day’s End,t Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney
2018 Solo Exhibition Songs of Light and Shade, Art2Muse Gallery, Sydney
2017 Solo Exhibition at Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2015 Solo Exhibition In the cool of the day, Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay
2012 Three Artists, Four Seasons, Mary Place Gallery Paddington
2011 Primavera, Group Show, Iain Dawson Gallery Paddington
2011 Group Show, Iain Dawson Gallery Paddington
2010 Groups Show, All Hand Made Gallery, Waverley
2008 Two Artists (opened by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott), All Hand Made Gallery, Waverley
2007 Group Show, All Hand Made Gallery, Waverley
2006 Group Show, All Hand Made Gallery, Waverley
2005 Final Year Students Exhibition, Pyrmont
2002 – 04 The Charlie Sheard Studio School, Redfern
Private Collections in Sydney, Los Angeles, Auckland and Jerusalem