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I Just Want to Be Near You
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2,068
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Washing Over Me
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1,548
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You Have My Heart
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1,546
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You Found Me in the Midst of Deep Waters
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2,135
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For Me to Live Is...
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1,535
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Out of Deep Waters
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2,068
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Be Still and Wait Through the Storm
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2,068
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Light Shines in the Darkness
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1,185
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You Fill Up the Sky with Endless Grace
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2,695
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The Secret Place
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2,695
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Whatever Is True, Whatever Is Honorable
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2,695
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Catch the Wind
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1,372
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Redeeming Love
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1,372
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This Night Will Pass
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1,698
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Your Promise Still Stands
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1,698
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Spread Like a Fire
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1,249
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About Leonie
Leonie.e.Brown has a degree in Fine Arts and diploma in teaching and studied Fine Art in Potchefstroom. She was one of the early winners of the Volkskas (now ABSA) Atelier, and today lives and works Cape Town. She has been exhibiting and selling since 2004. Passionate about painting and experimenting with Encaustics, she focuses her work on the relationship between the human spirit, faith, touch and daily life.
About the Style: The surface of the painting is made up of layers of oils, inks and wax, which give the finished work a three dimensional quality. A sense of seeing through the top layer into hidden messages and layers below. The layering give the work a softness and richness that invites the viewer to look closer and to experience the satin smooth surface through touch,. The wax layers get more and more translucent through the warmth emanating from the exploring human hand. The viewers becomes a part of the slow change and clarity of the painting...as if the message is rising from the depth of the hidden soul to the surface of the mind There is a strange ethereal beauty in these paintings, as if they were made from air.
About Encaustics: The term Encaustica is derived from Greek, meaning a burning in. Encaustic art has soft, smokey and sensual feel about it and is a spontaneous medium where hot or cold wax is used, to which colored pigments have been added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface and the various layers are melted and burned into each other. It is typically layered to create more opaque, or more translucent effects, and can be combined with other materials. Each layer of wax can also be scraped, textured or polished for a variety of finishes. The possibilities are endless--encaustic paintings can be abstract or realistic, subtle or bold--and the wax itself is enormously sensual. It's really all about incorporating your own style into this wonderful medium.
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. J. M. W. Turner The role of the artist is to find the deepest feelings of human nature and expose them to the good or the bad. I choose to follow hope and life. Leonie.e.Brown "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice." Philippians 4:8 To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. Dr. Dale E. Turner
About the Theme: We are the sum total of our past...but we don't have to stay there. 'I come from an exceptionally traumatic background. From the age of four up until my late twenties I suffered abuse in my closest relationships. At eighteen, I went to varsity in Potchefstroom to study my life's passion - art. As I tried to find my feet as a student/artist/young woman, themes of angst, despair, anger and abuse filled my paintings. I won prizes this way. I won respect and admiration for my talent. But I was also re-living the suffering and continually victimizing myself, which ultimately dug the pit of hopelessness deeper.' 'At the age of 29 life came to a turning point, as I had come to the end of myself - I gave up on trying to build life my way. I turned to my faith (which I had rejected along the way) for help and became part of a faith-filled family which is where I met and married my wonderful and loving husband, Rob. I never looked back.' 'In the past, I had used my story and negative feelings as the source of my artistic inspiration.'
'You see, everyone can resonate with negative visual language - we all drift towards it, because it is a reflection of our imperfect selves. The Bible speaks of it in this way: "Sin gives birth to sin, but Spirit gives birth to Spirit". I became a victor instead of a victim. I saw light and wanted to speak light in my visual language.'
'The more I began to see what is true, noble, right, pure, lovely and admirable through my walk of faith, the more I put it into practice - both in my personal life and in my artistic practice. I realized that the dark paintings I had painted before were not inspiring the viewers to a higher calling or glorifying the Creator, nor even showing what is good and lovely.'
Painting is a strange business. J. M. W. Turner I now see my work as contemporary Romanticism rendered in an Impressionistic style, sometimes to the point of complete Abstraction. I enjoy applying bright colors in thick, multiple layers of paint to bring out messages of hope on canvas. Leonie.e.Brown
About the Message: "My art is a protest against mindless nihilism...
It's about living in the moment and enjoying that moment...sucking the marrow out of the bone...It's about choosing NOT to live within the Greek mindset, but to access and choose to live out of the spirit, and not of the mind.
I believe our spirits and not our minds, define who we are and reflect a lot about humans and their behavior towards themselves and others. "
The artist reflects the relationship between faith and life and between the real and the imaginary on the various levels and surfaces of the painting.
"My work is about a very specific message to a specific viewer. I see myself as a glorified postmaster."
Price Range
US$ 57-3,229
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Exhibitions
Exhibition History: 2018 Bright Street Gallery SOLO, Somerset West, Cape Town LifeArt Studio, Durbanville, Cape Town
2017 Freshly Brought, Wellington Meerendal Art Gallery, Meerendal Wine Estate, Durbanville, CT Winter Life Exhibition, Fish hoek, CT Boldbrush August Competition
2016 Freshly Brought, Wellington 2016 Winter Life Exhibition, Fish Hoek 2014 Art at Constantia, Groot Constantia Art Gallery 2013 Rosendal Art Gallery 2013 Philadelphia Art Gallery 2012 Philadelphia Art Gallery 2011 Bay Hotel Art Gallery 2011 Junction Art Gallery 2009 Orange Cactus Gallery, Big Bay, Cape Town Interview with CCFM Interview with RSG Die Meul, Philadelphia, Cape Town on 28 November 2009 2008 Die Meul, Philadelphia, Cape Town RED! The Gallery, Steenburg Village, Cape Town De Brak Gallery, Groot Brak, Eastern Cape The Bay Hotel, Camps Bay, Cape Town Cayman Islands 2007 Johannesburg Outdoor Adventure and Travel Show RED! The Gallery, Steenburg Village, Cape Town 2006 Evita se Perron, Darling, Western Cape RED! The Gallery, Steenburg Village, Cape Town OBZ Cafe, Cape Town Interview with CCFM Interview with Tygerburger Before 2006 Potchefstroom Talent festival Rolfes Impressions National Volkskas Atelier * Winner in Fine Art Catagory Total Exhibition for Young Artists Potchefstroom Art Festival Lichtenburg Art Festival V & A Waterfront Desire Resnick Art Gallery
Education
BA(BK) Hons
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