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Mrs Montagu’s Friends 1  180 x 90cm  acrylic on linen  2004  [more work below]

Artist statement: Leonie Cronin paints figurative paintings and draws in a variety of media.
She enjoys painting people and likes to capture essences of human characters. Using symbolism and colour her paintings depict the subject in a context which draws upon the richness of their lives. Her paintings provide a combination of the real and emotional, and she regularly draws life subjects at the Princes Drawing Studio in Old Street.

Her series of paintings of ostrich feathers are based on stories of Mrs. Montagu, a wealthy British social reformer and founder of the blue stocking club who lived on Portman Square. She apparently either decorated a whole room with ostrich feathers instead of wallpaper or she collected feathers from visiting friends and filled an entire canvas to make a feathered wall, these paintings represent Mrs. Montagu and her friends. They were exhibited together to make a feathered room in the bar of the Portman Radisson Hotel.

Genre:
2D: Painting

Contact details:
leoniecronin[at]btinternet.com please replace [at] with @
http://www.bainbridgestudios.co.uk
Group shows
Oct 2007 Three Generations, Peckham, London
Feb 2005 Radisson Hotel, Portman Sq, London
Feb 2004 The Page, Pimlico, London
May 2003 Green Space, East Dulwich, London
May 2003 Morley Gallery, Kennington, London
Sept 2002 Three Women, Dulwich Village, London
May 2002 The Open Page, Southfields, London
July & Dec 2001 Open Studios at the Arches, Peckham, London
Oct 2000 Artists Living South Art Fair, Camberwell, London
Dec 1999 Luparella, Oval, London
Sept 1995 Thomas’s School, Battersea, London
April 1992 Castle Museum, Norwich
Education
1990-1993 BA Hons Fine Art: Painting, Norfolk Institute of Art
1988-1990 B-Tec General Art & Design, Chelsea School of Art
1998-1999 GAD: Ceramics: 3, Greenwich A.E.Institute
1992 Artist in residence, British School of Paris

2008 exhibitions: n/a

Further examples of work:

Grace  122 x 92cm  oil on canvas  2001

 
Study  60 x 85cm  coloured pencil on paper  2006

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