Leech, Raymond

• Dance Series III
• £280.00
• giclee on paper, mounted in deep bevel acid-free mounts, unframed
• 735 x 730mm
• edition of 150

About the artist

Raymond Leech was born at Great Yarmouth in East Anglia in 1949 and spent his childhood by the seaside. He was influenced to take up an artistic career by his father, who taught him to draw. In particular, he was inspired by the work of the Newlyn School, the French impressionists, Degas, Renoir and Toulouse Lautrec. Raymond Leech did take a course in fine art and graphics at a local college of art but considers himself mainly to be a self-taught artist. Raymond Leech has been painting professionally for several years, having spent his early life as a graphic designer working in the advertising industry.

Raymond Leech believes that a successful painting is not just a picture, but one that captures the air around the subject and the atmosphere as well. Raymond Leech is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Guild of Norwich Painters. His evocative images have elements of romance and nostalgia and always provoke thoughts of what has led up to that particular moment captured in his paintings, and the interaction between individuals is typical of his narrative style.

Raymond Leech's work has been exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and is now held in private collections throughout the United Kingdom, South Africa, America, Spain and Hong Kong.