Awakening, 2022
“I think that at its heart, art is a way of sharing something that the artist experiences in the world – the way I feel about painting is that it’s a living thing, an object imbued with the artists creative energy. Artists must take time to discover the language they will use to share this interpretation and connect their vision with others – my language is closely related to dance. I take great pleasure in movement.”
Genevieve Leavold is a British Abstract painter born in in Somerset. She originally trained and worked in Theatre Design before taking the decision to return her focus to painting. She completed studio courses at Central Saint Martins in 2007 and 2012. She has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and the USA and has work in private and corporate collections worldwide. For Genevieve, abstraction is not purely an expression of emotions, within the worlds evoked in her shifting organic paintings, she invites the viewer on a journey into the deeper realms of nature and concepts of self and how we connect to the world around us. Taking an intuitive approach to painting she relies on remembered form and trust in the spontaneous re-configuring of her well-practiced brushstrokes to create her flowing amorphous paintings. Echoes of plant forms, roots and fungi can be sensed in her work, and they are to be felt as well as seen. Her techniques have evolved from closely observed drawings into these richly toned, layered paintings in her present body of work. Influenced by dance and physical meditation practices such as Tai Chi and Yoga, she uses a specific language of mark-making, creating a unique and distinctive style in her work. Genevieve’s paintings have a playful, energising quality to them, bringing a sense of aliveness to the spaces they inhabit.