ALUN LEACH-JONES TRIBUTE ARTICLE BY GINA FAIRLEY ON ARTS HUB

Vale: Alun Leach-Jones Once you start to realise you can become a painter, the only way you can become really major, is to just keep working, working, working – and he did. Alun Leach-Jones in his studio; Photography Michel Brouet, image supplied courtesy Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne Born in 1937 in Lancashire, UK, Alun Leach-Jones…

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ALUN LEACH-JONES: 1937 – 2017

Celebrated Australian abstract artist Alun Leach-Jones passed away on the 24th of December 2017 . One of Australia’s most significant abstract artists, Leach-Jones was born in Wales in 1937, and arrived in Australia in 1959. From his early training in manuscript illumination in Liverpool and interest in geometric abstraction “Leach-Jones adapted the cool and detached…

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