Wendy Leach

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Wendy Leach's paintings are large, confident and visually powerful works.

Wendy is a graduate of both Elam School of Fine Arts, (Dip FA) and Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design (MFA Hons 1st class). She is also a qualified high school teacher (DipTchg).

She has had twenty one solo exhibitions and has exhibited in around forty group and collaborative shows. In her early career Wendy  enjoyed painting landscapes and she frequently traveled overseas to paint in France, Italy and the Middle East. She has exhibited in Jordan.

She has worked with oil paint, acrylic paint and mixed media painting techniques. She has
always enjoyed exploring the possibilities within techniques and materials.

​In 2000, Wendy was featured in 'International Artist' magazine, published in USA, in an eight-page feature article.

In 2006 Wendy commenced study for a Master of Fine Arts degree. Her graduation exhibition was held in January 2008, and she was awarded Master of Fine Arts with First Class Honours. Since then her style has gone through quite deliberate stages incorporating both realism and abstraction. 

From 2009 to 2015 Wendy and her husband Colin lived and worked in Europe. They returned to New Zealand and now live in Mangawhai Heads where Wendy has established her painting studio.. 

Wendy's last solo exhibition, featuring abstract works, was at ArtHAUS Contemporary in February, 2018. A reviewer wrote 'Leach’s new works explode with abstract energy, new vigour and freedom after an extended European sojourn.  Her approach is intuitive - she paints autonomously, free from external influence - avoiding subject and genre yet there is structure, line and rhythm. Her mark making skills are strong as she plays with swirls, splashes and drips - perhaps evoking Pollock and Kandinsky."

She also exhibited at Mangawhai Artists Gallery in April 2019, in the joint exhibition 'Large Works' with Nicola Everett, Bineta Hinton and Lynn Middleton.
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See more about Wendy on her website www.wendyleach.com.
Email: please use this contact form
​​Phone 022 6535 288
Facebook: www.facebook.com/WendyLeachArt/  
Instagram: @wendyleach_art
Studio: 35 Cheviot Street, Mangawhai Heads, New Zealand.  Viewings of Wendy's work are by appointment only. 
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