ALUN LEACH-JONES TRIBUTE IN ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA

I was fortunate enough to meet Alun Leach-Jones for the first time in July 2017 when I interviewed him in his Sydney studio for Art Guide Australia. The English born painter was softly spoken, but gregarious, and our conversation ranged from the discipline of his daily painting routine and his passion for abstraction and colour to his plans for the…

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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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