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Leanne Baird

A landscape scene; in the foreground is a grouping of yellow trees with colour block brush strokes and sumac branches with ripe red berries. A forest and field are suggested with faint lines, in mute tones: brown, purple and grey.

Leanne Baird
Title: Tamarack and Sumac
Date: 2023
Medium: acrylic on canvas

About the artist:

Leanne Baird is a former landscape designer and graduated from the Fine Art program at the University of Toronto. She has also studied process art making and mandala art making in the USA and India. Since her studies, Leanne has participated in numerous juried and group shows throughout Ontario including The Frederick Horsman Varley Gallery, The Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Rails End Gallery and The Art Gallery of Peterborough.

Leanne has taught children’s art classes at the Varley Art Gallery, numerous school boards in Southern Ontario including Lakefield College School and the Art School of Peterborough, where she also served a three-year term on the Board of Directors. In addition, Leanne offered process painting workshops called “A Vision Quest into the Mandala” in her studio. Leanne is currently focusing on her painting practice. In her spare time Leanne likes to garden and spend time in nature. Her work is found in many national and international private collections, and she is currently represented by The Ethel Curry Gallery, Colborne Street Gallery, and Buckingham Gallery of Fine Art.

“My landscape paintings are studies of both the physical and metaphysical. I strive to depict the beauty and colour of our natural world infused with the multidimensional reality of light. By immersing myself into the elements of nature and communicating my experience in an abstracted expression of the landscape, I practice capturing the feeling of the natural world by deconstructing trees, hills, and sky into colour, line, form, and space.” – Leanne Baird

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The interior of the artist’s studio; a wood building with a white door propped open; there is a flagstone path to the door and two birdfeeders hang in front of a garden with yellow flowers. A tall, thin wooden sculpture is in the garden.