Ursula Leach

I make paintings and prints responding to the chalk landscape of Cranborne Chase. It is a mainly arable landscape where the variety of marks and colours are endlessly fascinating and informative. The work is, to some extent, about current agricultural practises, but firstly is about the formal issues of image making. Colour has become increasingly important to me as an expression of mood and atmosphere. As global warming takes effect there are dramatic and beautiful changes of colour in the fields. Pictorial structure and the edge of the image offer exciting scope to explore the space and scale in a landscape of huge fields.

Ursula Leach trained at Winchester School of Art, Wimbledon College of Art and also West Surrey (Farnham) College of Art.

Solo Exhibitions

2008, 2006
Oliver Contemporary, London
2002, 1997
Attendi, London
2001
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
1994
Southampton City Art Gallery

Group Exhibitions

2008, 2007, 2006
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Arflex, Osaka & Tokyo
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
Oliver Contemporary, London
2008, 2002
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2008
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
Trig Point, The Study Gallery, Poole
2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003
Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2007
The Study Gallery, Poole
Highgate Fine Art, London
2005
Intimate Space, Artist Face, Sherborne House, Dorset
RE Annual, Bankside Gallery, London
2005, 2002, 1995
Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
2004
Summerleaze Gallery, Salisbury
Art 2004, Islington
Elemental Insight, Met. Office, Exeter & tour
2003
The Contemporary Landscape, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
2001
Maltby Gallery, Winchester
Six Chapel Row, Bath
2000
Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Southampton
Six Chapel Row, Bath
Black Swan, Frome
Maltby Gallery, Winchester
1999
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1998
Vital Arts Auction, Groucho Club, London
Field Studies, Winchester Contemporary Art
1997
Beatrice Royal Art Gallery, Southampton
1996
Redfern Gallery, London
Pathways & Crosscurrents, Poole Arts Centre
Scratching The Surface, Stansell Gallery, Taunton
1994
Landmarks, Southampton City Art Gallery
1993
The London Group, Barbican, London
Lasting Impressions, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath