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Bill Leech Artist Bio & Statement
I grew up in a small town in rural Kansas. Drawing for me came at an early age and later colored pencils and crayons. I couldn’t get enough of it. It was an activity that I have kept up through all the years. After high school I attended the Kansas City Art Institute where after the first year of Foundation, I chose Painting as my major. In my third year of college I attended the summer session at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.I have lived in Kansas City, Boston, New York City and Roosevelt, New Jersey.
Since around 2008 I’ve become more involved in abstraction. The paintings are getting smaller and I am finally getting past trying to “put everything I ever learned into each painting”. They are becoming less worked over and although compositional elements are mapped out in a flat up front way. In working with paint I am attempting reveal certain areas with clarity and definition and at the same time trying to respect what paint does without “me” stepping in to over control it. I am blindly following some inner vision that isn’t fully formed but has asserted itself repeatedly over time and that I recognize as me - or perhaps my soul. I look for openings that, when sensed or visualized, I can follow through and establish through the act of painting.
Since around 2008 I’ve become more involved in abstraction. The paintings are getting smaller and I am finally getting past trying to “put everything I ever learned into each painting”. They are becoming less worked over and although compositional elements are mapped out in a flat up front way. In working with paint I am attempting reveal certain areas with clarity and definition and at the same time trying to respect what paint does without “me” stepping in to over control it. I am blindly following some inner vision that isn’t fully formed but has asserted itself repeatedly over time and that I recognize as me - or perhaps my soul. I look for openings that, when sensed or visualized, I can follow through and establish through the act of painting.
