Leonard Aitken - Artist

 Leonard Aitken Botanical Paintings

This is a  gallery of the paintings, drawings, mixed media artworks, music, stories and animations of visual artist Leonard Aitken.

The paintings explore such genres as: botanical and floral, landscape, seascape, surrealism, conceptual art and spiritual or Christian art. The media used are mostly oil on canvas, but also pastel, ink and various other forms of mixed media.

Light plays a key role in most of his works. Backlighting adds drama and fragility to flowers, leaves, foliage, mountains, forests, jungles and the ocean.

The surreal works employ bright, high keyed colour and high contrasts. They play with the 2 dimensional space and are inspired by dreams and subconscious improvisation. They contain a quirky, sometimes wacky sense of humour.

The conceptual and spiritual paintings are a new avenue of exploration for Leonard; as is his music.

Leonard has been writing stories since a child, painting for about 30 years and animating for about 15 years.