Artworks are first available to purchase in person at the exhibition held from 4-10 Oct at King George Square.
Online sales will open following the exhibition.
Léonie Seabrook is a Brisbane/Meanjin artist. She was born in Kenya and has lived in Australia since 1993.
Art has provided her with essential mental and emotional therapy during times of severe depression, including during the progressive disablement of her husband from early onset Parkinson’s Disease, which culminated in his death in 2022.
Léonie paints many different subjects from the natural world and the built environment, including animals and birds, landscapes and seascapes. She works mainly in watercolours because she loves their translucence, looseness, and unpredictability. Léonie describes watercolours as bringing her a joy and exhilaration that is unmatched in other artistic mediums.
Léonie has exhibited and won awards at a number of art shows around Australia over the past five (5) years.
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This watercolour was inspired by the mountain huts in the high country of southeast Australia. The idea of a mountain retreat strongly appeals to me at times. It is a combination of being surrounded by such natural beauty and withdrawal from the challenges of society. I wonder whether people who have lived in those mountains found them as healing as I do.