Saddler’s Court Gallery
offers the work of more than 100 Tasmanian artists and crafts people. We choose each piece personally, not in terms of what is fashionable or what sells best, but according to its ability to reflect something of Tasmania.
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Saddler’s Court Galleryoffers the work of more than 100 Tasmanian artists and crafts people. We choose each piece personally, not in terms of what is fashionable or what sells best, but according to its ability to reflect something of Tasmania. |
Leonard BensonBorn in Tasmania in 1947, Leonard grew up in a large family, with a love of drawing “ever since I can remember”, and went on to study photography and sculpture. After taking a redundancy from his job as a draftsman in the public service (after 28 years service), he bought an old Anglican church to establish both a studio and home and turn fulltime to drawing and painting. Along the way to establishing his career in art, Leonard spent some time painting portraits at Salamanca Market. Essentially self taught, Leonard has provoked discussion with his unconventional subject matter (he specialises in the human form), dramatic, expressionistic style, uninhibited, spontaneous and individual use of colour and composition. Leonard paints using oil paints and, when combined with the dark frames he frequently uses to surround his paintings, their impact is further heightened. Since 1991, he has exhibited his paintings in many solo exhibitions in Tasmania and Queensland. He now has a big following for his “women” – paintings of the female form characterised by their long necks, their aura of mystery, their elegance and the sensuous quality they evoke.
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