Location: Australia
Leonard Aitken is an australian artist and has been painting for 30 years. He has a love for all types of art, music, literature and film. Lenny prefers to paint realistic and surrealistic works. The natural world around him is his first inspiration, but most of his work is transformed by a prodigious imagination. His output is prolific and doesn’t confine itself just to painting but also music (composing, playing piano), writing (stories, poetry), film and animation.
Leonard discovered he could paint at the age of 15, but it wasn't until the age of 32 that he decided to get serious and enter university. In 1995 he completed a Bachelor of Arts (visual arts) at Charles Sturt University, (Wagga Wagga), which he passed with distinction. Since then he has completed a Diploma of Education and has taught art at schools, Tafe, various adult education institutions and at home. However art is his first love.
“I 'm effervescent and lively and can't cope with just doing one thing all the time. I need constantly to experiment, use different mediums and explore different genres.” Usually he has about 20 paintings “in progress” at once, while simultaneously working on various musical, writing and animation projects. His paintings are usually built up in many layers of stains and glazes. His floral and landscape paintings tend to concentrate on the properties of light and colour and have a calm beauty despite their brightness and vivid detail. Some of his more "whimsical" paintings have been described as resembling "animation stills"; and his animations as having the quality of "paintings come to life".
This collection of works centres around the concept of eternity. Most of these works were completed for my Masters of Arts (Practice). There are a number of large works of various sizes, as well as a large number of smaller works (all 42 * 29 cm in size) and a selection of black and white drawings.
Size: 42 * 29 cm
Oil on canvas
$325
42 * 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$215
42 * 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$295
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$650
60 * 39 cm
Oil on canvas
$395
60 * 82 cm
Oil on canvas
$980
42 * 29 cm
Oil on canvas
$290
59 * 59 cm
Oil on canvas
$1500
42 * 29 cm
Oil on canvas
$265
42 * 29 cm
Oil on canvas
$275
42 * 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$265
27 * 25 cm
Pencil on paper
$320
42 * 29 cm
Oil on canvas
$225
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$750
21 * 25 cm
Pencil on paper
$265
21 * 25 cm
Pencil on paper
$290
150 * 100 cm
Oil on canvas
$4500
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
21 * 25 cm
Pencil on Paper
$220
!00 * 120 cm
Mixed Media on canvas
$2800
A collection of botanical paintings. Most of these are macro scenes concentrating on the lighting and the mood and effects the lighting creates. Often a backlight is used to highlight the details of leaves and add drama to the work.
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$1600
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$880
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$590
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$490
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$980
90 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$1250
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$680
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$1250
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$540
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$1250
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$1250
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$1250
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$680
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$580
A collection of landscape and marine paintings completed in various styles.
41 * 55 cm
Pastel on paper
$590
100 * 120 cm
Oil on canvas
$2850
120 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$3600
72 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$1250
14 * 22 cm
Pencil on paper
$175
30 * 25 cm
Pastel on paper
$250
31 * 35 cm
Pastel on paper
$190
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$750
100 * 120 cm
Oil on canvas
$1450
84 * 61 cm
Oil on canvas
$880
120 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$1450
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$980
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$850
75 * 55 cm
Pastel on paper
$580
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$1150
31 * 21 cm
Pastel on paper
$290
47 * 46 cm
Pastel on paper
$340
50 * 70 cm
Pastel on paper
$780
70 * 50 cm
Pastel on paper
$440
A collection of various paintings where the concept is of prime concern to appreciating the work.
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$3400
100 * 120 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$3000
95 * 95 cm
Oil on canvas
$980
56 * 44 cm
Pastel on Paper
$380
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$1850
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$850
42 * 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$235
100 * 75 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$1300
9* 8 cm
Mixed Media
$850
21 * 25 cm
Pencil on paper
$250
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$2000
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$2400
60 * 39 cm
Mixed Media
$1280
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$3000
14 * 22.5 cm
Pencil and wax on paper
$240
The paintings in this section range from figurative fantasy paintings to very abstract surrealist works.
“Picassoesque Horses Head and Friends”
70 * 50 cm
Mixed media on paper
$775
80 * 100 cm
Oil on canvas
$1150
60 * 45 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$400
70 * 50 cm
Mixed media on paper
$525
60 * 45 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$440
70 * 50 cm
Mixed media on paper
$895
42 * 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$245
42 * 29 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$285
100 * 100 cm
Oil on canvas
$1380
40 * 40 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$260
100 * 120 cm
Oil on canvas
$3600
97 * 91 cm
Oil on canvas
$1800
19 * 14 cm
Mixed media on paper
$225
60 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$850
148 * 84 cm
Oil on canvas
$3200
20 * 13 cm
Mixed media on paper
$325
112 * 112 cm
Oil on canvas
$1480
“Tiffany Let's Just be Friends”
43 * 33 cm
Mixed media on paper
$340
70 * 50 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$890
70 * 50 cm
Mixed media on paper
$755
A selection of paintings which tackle spiritual ideas or have an ethereal edge to them.
150 * 100 cm
Oil on canvas
$4500
100 * 75 cm
Oil on canvas
$650
113 * 113 cm
Oil on canvas
$950
72 * 62 cm
Oil on canvas
$450
28 * 39 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$275
88* 83 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
90 * 90 cm
Oil on canvas
$780
100 * 100 cm
Mixed media on canvas
$1180
“Anomaly”
“Carnival Days”
“Embryo”
“Gateway”
“Happy Creation”
“Journey 3”
“Immaterial Monoliths”
“Majesty”
“Outer Space”
“Porcupine Pie”
“The Way of the Tongue”
“The Happy Dream”
“The Unfathomable”
“Upon the Shores of Heaven”
“Finally”
“Organic Debris”
“Painting”
“Modendaity”
“Seven”
“Vortex”
“Transience”
“Burnished Light”
“Buds”
“Chrysanthemums”
“Yellow Grove”
“Grevillia”
“Hibiscus”
“Leaf Design 1”
“Menagerie”
“Mighty Flowers”
“Natural Design”
“Tropical Grove”
“Bromeliad Design”
“Banana Leaves”
“Flutterby”
“Confection”
“Autumn Afternoon”
“Bellingen Gold”
“Carnival in the Jungle”
“Crucified Landscape”
“Deconstructed Landscape 2”
“Fire (sketch)”
“Fury”
“Monolith”
“Onward”
“Organic Carvings”
“Pond”
“Rocks, Diggers Beach”
“The Orange Rock”
“Super Breaker”
“The Ice House”
“The Inlet Comes Alive”
“Twilight”
“Near Twilight”
“Utopian Mountainside”
“Two Worlds”
“The Pride of Still Life”
“The Supreme Nebula”
“Celestial Beauty”
“Chauvinism”
“Imposter”
“Mecha”
“Mecha 2”
“Punctuation”
“The Fabulous Doctrine”
“The Note”
“Marriage Vows”
“Surface Tension 1”
“Paradox 2”
“Visitations”
“Tactile Still Life”
“Permanence (sketch)”
“Organizmo”
“Turnstile”
“He Nose”
“Hallucination”
“Inside Circus”
“Space Parodies”
“Opposing Forces”
“Conjunction”
“Piazza”
“Plenitude”
“Power”
“Sentinel”
“The Birds”
“The Candy Shop”
“The Wrong Choice”
“The Young Fishermans Dream”
“Celebration”
“Chase”
“City of Light”
“Celebration”
“Breath”
“The Tear”
“Misbehaviour”
“The Looming Truth”
“Journey”
“Birthplace”
