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leon okS

little villages evoking bittersweet
nostalgia of his childhood, his
forest of birch trees which breath
and sway and speak to us. His
work of myriad variation makes
us know him.

leon’s women
The female figure, resplendent with
beauty and intrigue, is a common
catalyst for his art. Enveloped in
a dreamscape of lush bodies and
vegetation, its echoing form interacts
and reacts with all that it touches,
teasing the viewer to fill in the
specifics. Images of hushed, warm
towns and verdant landscapes fill
out his oeuvre. The tottering, shaky
little villages evoke the bittersweet
nostalgia of childhood and the forest
of birch trees breath, sway and
beckon. These myriad variations of
forms, seemingly unconnected, are
chained together by his unabashed
romanticism and a commitment
to extracting the most expression
possible from a fluid line.
As a disciplined, academically
based painter, leon Oks is able to
smoothly weave that basic underlying
foundation into a tapestry of his own
unique fanciful inspiration. As one
very important catalyst for his interior
vision, he uses the female form. He
paints her with fluid brushstrokes,
luminous sparkling color and dynamic
movement, multiple perspectives
with flowing lyrical lines and
resplendent sensuous beauty.
His women are vessels of creative
power and span the range of human
emotions. She is NATUrE, MOTHEr,
J Oy, SO rrOW, S T rU ggl E. He
abstracts the essence of his subject
and makes it his own.

soUnD oF siLenCe, 2009 OIl ON
CANvAS 40x30 IN. /100x75 CM. 
 JeaLoUsy i, 2001 OIl ON CANvAS
30x36 IN. /76x91 CM.
 aDam anD eVe, 2006 OIl ON
CANvAS 24x24 IN. /60,5x60,5 CM.
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