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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). Over her career she has had 22 solo exhibitions and has exhibited in around forty group and collaborative shows. In her early career Wendy  specialised in painting landscapes and she frequently traveled overseas to paint in France, Italy and the Middle East. She exhibited in Jordan in 2004, 'Landscapes of Jordan'.

She has worked with oil paint, acrylic paint and multi-media 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.

Feeling in need of personal and artistic challenge and to push her art boundaries, 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 Belgium. Wendy's Brussels art studio was the entire top floor of a traditional old house. Wendy taught drawing and painting classes in Brussels. When they returned to New Zealand they chose to live in Mangawhai Heads on the property they have owned for 24 years. 

Wendy exhibited at Mangawhai Artists Gallery in April 2019, in the joint exhibition 'Large Works' with Nicola Everett, Bineta Hinton and Lynn Middleton. Her next exhibition will be 'Full Circle' with Nicola Everett at Mangawhai Artists Gallery, opening on 29 January 2021 (Anniversary Weekend).

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/  
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Studio: 35 Cheviot Street, Mangawhai Heads.  Viewings of Wendy's work are by appointment only. 


Wendy's solo exhibitions

1988 ASA Gallery, Auckland
1989 Twelve Potters Gallery, Auckland
1990 Ferner Gallery, Auckland
1993 Morgan Street Gallery, Auckland
1994 John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1995
Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1996
Dobson Bashford Gallery, Christchurch
Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1997
Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1998 John Leech Gallery, Auckland
1999 John Leech Gallery, Auckland
2000
Dobson Bashford Gallery, Christchurch
Tinakori Gallery, Wellington
2001 Studio of Contemporary Art, Auckland
2002 Studio of Contemporary Art, Auckland
2003 Fishers Fine Arts, Christchurch
2004 "Landscapes of Jordan" Al Hussein Centre, Amman, Jordan
2008 "Time Space Light" Graduation exhibition for Master of Fine Arts. Randolph St Gallery, Auckland.  
​2018 "Wendy Leach - New Work"  ArtHAUS, Auckland​
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'Pohutukawas, Mangawhai' is a glimpse of Wendy's new work for her exhibition 'Full Circle' opening at Mangawhai Artists Gallery on 29 January, 2021. She will be exhibiting with Nicola Everett.

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SOURCE Oil on canvas 1000 x 1000mm $2,850.00
FLUX. Oil on canvas 1000 x 1000mm $2,850.00
TRANSVERSING 2 Acrylic on canvas 750 x 750mm $1,900.00 SOLD
REVERIE Acrylic on canvas 900 x 1200mm $2,800.00 SOLD
ELEMENTS 1200 x 1200mm Acrylic on canvas $3,200.00 SOLD
TRANSVERSING 1200 x 1200 mm Acrylic on canvas $3,200.00 SOLD
FILAMENTS 750 x 750mm Acrylic on canvas $1,900.00 SOLD
DIVERGENCE 750 x 750mm Acrylic on canvas $1,900.00. SOLD
INTERPRETATION 750 x 750mm Acrylic on canvas $1,900.00
TWIRL 750 x 750 mm Acrylic on board $1,900.00
DRIFT 1200 x 1200 mm Acrylic on canvas $3,200.00 SOLD
OVER AND ABOVE 750 x 750 mm Acrylic on canvas $1,900.00

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    • Roland Seibertz
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