Ursula LEACH RE
Painting, print making, Visual Arts
I make paintings and prints responding to the chalk landscape of Cranborne Chase. It is a mainly arable landscape where the variety of marks and colours are endlessly fascinating and informative. The work is, to some extent, about current agricultural practises but firstly is about the formal issues of image making. Colour has become increasingly important to me as an expression of mood and atmosphere. As global warming takes effect there are dramatic and beautiful changes of colour in the fields. Pictorial structure and the edge of the image offer exciting scope to explore the space and scale in a landscape of huge fields.
Ursula Leach B.A. (Hons) Fine
Art, RE
Trained
Winchester, Wimbledon and West Surrey
College of Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2010 The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset
2008 Oliver Contemporary, London
2006 Oliver Contemporary, London
2002 Attendi, London
2001 Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
1996 Attendi, London
1994 Southampton City Art Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Open 09 – Drawing, Salisbury Arts
Centre
2009 Clifford Chance, London
2009 The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art,
Blandford ,Dorset
2008 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries,
London. Invited artist
2009/08 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy
of Arts, London
2007 The Study Gallery @ The Lighthouse,
Poole. Two person show
2006 -09 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2006 -08 Arflex, Osaka and Toyko, Japan
2005/02 &1995 Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art,
London
2004 –06 Elemental Insight, Met. Office, Exeter and
tour
2003 –07 Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2002 –09 Oliver Contemporary, London
2002 The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries,
London
1994-2003 National Print
Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
2000 –01 Six Chapel Row, Bath
1999 R.W.A., Bristol
1996 Redfern Gallery, London
1993 The London Group, Barbican, London
1992 Fresh Art, London
CollectionsAshmolean Museum, Worthing
Hospital, St. Marks Hospital, London, The Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, Dorset
County Hospital, Kirklees Museums and The Curwen Archive
Prizes & Awards
Intaglio Printmaking Prize
2009, The Curwen Print Studio Prize 2005, The RK Burt Etching Prize 1993, South
West Arts Award 1996, Southern Arts Award 1989
Selected Articles & Reviews
Printmakers Secrets 2009, The
Week 2008, 50 Wessex Artists (Evolver Books) 2007, The Week 2006,
Galleries Magazine 2006, Contemporary Art 1994, The Printmakers
Directory, Collagraphs & Mixed Media Printmaking, Elemental Insight
Catalogue, A Flight over Cranborne Chase, Growing Concerns Catalogue 2001
Paintings