In this studio, hidden talents are set free.

If you grew up in an alcoholic home, you never know what to expect from one day to the next. When one or both parents struggle with addiction, the home environment is predictably unpredictable

If you grew up in an alcoholic home, you never know what to expect from one day to the next. When one or both parents struggle with addiction, the home environment is predictably unpredictable

The surface of encaustic is unique, and the luminosity, light, and depth of the surface is what draws collectors and curators to the form.

Trying and failing is not wrong.
I’ve failed many times in my life. I’ve failed as an artist, a mother, a friend, a human. My failures have to lead me to new unknown shores. It’s only when we fail, that we can look back and learn. We don’t always learn from succeeding. We learn more from ‘the dark night of the soul’.

I have often doubted whether I should keep on painting. From being a 20 + year-old winner of the largest Fine Art competition in my country I descended in obscurity and depression. My life has not been easy. (Read about my life journey here!)

The versatility and raw artistic talent of Leonie E. Brown has been recognized and celebrated at a very early stage in this prolific painter’s career. At the tender age of twenty-two she has already won the prestigious 1986 Volkswagen Atelier Fine Art Award, in addition to both the Schweicherd and Gregoire Boonzaaier Art Bursaries the year before.

A four minute look at how South African Artist Leonie.e.Brown creates her unique abstract paintings. This process creates a spontaneity that leads to some very interesting results.

The surface of the painting is made up of layers of oils, inks and wax, which give the finished work a three dimensional quality. A sense of seeing through the top layer into hidden messages and layers below. The layering give the work a softness and richness that invites the viewer to look closer and to experience the satin smooth surface through touch,. The wax layers get more and more translucent through the warmth emanating from the exploring human hand. The viewers becomes a part of the slow change and clarity of the painting…as if the message is rising from the depth of the hidden soul to the surface of the mind There is a strange ethereal beauty in these paintings, as if they were made from air.

Sneak Peak behind the latest magic of Leonie.e.Brown Artist.
The surface of the painting is made up of layers of oils, inks and wax, which gives the finished work a three dimentional quality.
A sense of seeing through the top layer into hidden messages and layers below. The layering gives the work a softness and richness that invites the viewer to look closer and to experience the satin smooth surface through touch.
The wax layers gets more and more translucent through the warmth emenating from the human hand. The viewers become a part of the slow change and clarity of the painting…as if the message is rising from the depth of the hidden soul to the surface of the mind.
There is a strange and ethereal beauty to these paintings. As if they were made from air.

Encaustic Artist Leonie.e.Brown shares a, behind the camera, glimpse into her magical encaustic painting process.

This video shows Artist Leonie.e.Brown, busy with her latest painting in her studio. It shows snippets of her painting style as well as her encaustic works.

Art Exhibition at EVITA SE PERRON, DARLING

Art Exhibition at OBZ Cafe, Observatory