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Leon Oks
LOVE OF NATURE, OIL ON CANVAS 24X18 IN. | 60X45 CM. ADAM AND EVE, 2006 OIL ON CANVAS 24X24 IN. /60,5X60,5 CM.
NATURE, OIL ON CANVAS 30X30 IN. | 75X75 CM.
Leon Oks’s dream of freedom of artistic expression, Art is his world and was the key to changing his
which the artist so desperately sought, began when life. The artist has a strong belief that the same can
he came to United State in 1980. Since that day, the be true for many others. This type of passion, on a
more he is able to share the gift of creativity, the grand scale, can change the focus of the world at
deeper his gratitude grows. A sense of the artist’s large. Color, beauty, and nature can offer inspiration
Russian-Ukrainian heritage, with its bittersweet to all who open their minds and hearts to it. People
memories and intense emotions, continues to frame are touched and uplifted by many of Oks’s paintings
the subject matter of many of his paintings; it is the because they stimulate imagination with their
foundation upon which Leon Oks’s love of art is built. expressions of sensuality and possibility.
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