BIOGRAPHY
Dutch abstract painter Léonce Lemmens (b. 1955, Maastricht/The Netherlands) studied at the Maastricht Art Academy. This path ended quite quickly as she seized the opportunity to work at an advertising agency. After some years in the public relations field, Léonce took yet a different path and for the next decades her meandering career took her from healthcare to international real estate finance.
In 2014 she picked up painting and since 2018 it has her full attention ever since and she focused on abstraction.
CV
2023 Exhibitions & publication
– Galeria Azur Berlin
– By Bärbel & Van Spaendonk Art Gallery Zwolle NL / May 2023
– Art Guide Antwerp
2022 Exhibitions and awards
– MONAT Gallery Madrid / representation
– MONAT Gallery / International Art Fair Art3f Paris participation
– MONAT Gallery / Group exhibition ‘Rendezvous’
– ARTio Gallery Toronto / Carroussel du Louvre Paris exhibition
– MADS Gallery Milan / ‘The world revolves around me’ online exhibition
– Contemporary Art Curator / ‘Butterly effect’ online exhibition
– Galerie 8 Netherlands / Summer exhibition
– WE contemporary 2022 / catalog by MUSA International
– International Prize Paris / Art International Contemporary Magazine
– Circle Foundation for the Arts / Certificate of Excellence
– Voices of Tomorrow Art Award
– Power of Creativity Art Book
2021
– Art Guide Amsterdam
– Art Guide The Netherlands
– Art Guide Artists
STATEMENT
“In my paintings I try to capture the ephemeral: that which lies beyond words or reason. I love abstract because it’s intuitive and freedom: for me to paint and for the viewers to assign their own interpretation and emotion.
What touches my heart I translate in my paintings, I find my inspiration in travelling but also from occurrences in daily life. While painting I have no limits. I love to explore and mix materials as a result that I sometimes mess up a painting. But this can also be the start of something unexpectedly new.”
