Meg Leonard

Meg's work is derived from what she sees around her and developing what was compelling about that view. She paints skyscapes using oil or pastel, preferring pastel in the field for the seductive brilliance and spontaneity it affords. Most often she is captivated by a quality of light, relationship of colors, or a brief, crystalline moment in the midst of change. Music or bird songs provide the work with rhythm and tone. She starts to work outdoors and refines later in the studio. Maturing results in loosening from representational, streamlining, attempting to re-connect with the mysterious and sublime, color relationships. As a "perceptionist painter", this seems far more important to communicate than does detail or traditional realism.