A post shared by Michael Leonard (@michaelleonardartist)Leonard was born in India in 1933 to British parents and relocated to England in 1945.
He studied Commercial Design and Illustration at St Martin’s College in the 1950s. Afterward, he took up work as an illustrator.
However, he soon began to develop his own, more personal body of work.It wasn’t until the 1970s that he honed a style that brought him to wider attention and earned him a following on the London art scene.
He’d already turned 40 when he had his first solo exhibition in 1974.Leonard painted people and the spaces in which they worked and lived.