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About The Artist:
Roger Leonard has been painting for six decades. He resides on Dog Island, a Gulf Coast barrier island in North Florida. His subjects include: Everglades, Big Cypress National Preserve, swamps, beaches, cypress trees, marshes, creeks, blackwater rivers, marine buildings like fishing shacks and oyster shucking houses. His style is closest to American New Realism. While the detail in his works rises to the photographic level, this mature artist’s paintings are more like memories or dreams of the places they represent.
Education:
Roger Leonard is largely self-taught in painting. He is also a graduate of Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, where he completed studies in advertising design and illustration, and did directed individual studies in fine art. Leonard holds an Associate of Arts degree from Florisant Valley Community College, St. Louis, MO, where he dumped journalism and smelled the paint. He was born in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, and is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Exhibitions and Awards:
2007 Boca Grande Art Alliance National Exhibition, Boca Grande, Florida; Everett Raymond Kinstler, juror.
2007 Hilton Head Art League National Juried Exhibition, Hilton Head Island, SC; Dean Mitchell, juror.
2006 Mexico Beach Welcome Center Gallery, Mexico Beach, Florida, Solo.
Ongoing Senators’ Gallery at the United States Courthouse Annex, Tallahassee, Florida.
2006 Hilton Head Art League 19th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Hilton Head, SC.
2005 Atrium Gallery, Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida.
2004 43rd Bay Annual Art Show, Visual Arts Center of Northwest Florida, Panama City, Florida.
2004 National Arts for the Parks Competition, National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY TOP 100.
2003 16th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Hilton Head Art League, Hilton Head, SC, 2nd Place for oil or polymer category.
Gulf Coast Maritime Museum, Panacea, Florida- Permanent Collection.