Nick Leniuk
![A black single pine tree silhouette is fixed onto a grey and black speckled granite base.](https://agp.on.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/KAST-2024-Nick-Leniuk-Silent-Lake-1024x1024.webp)
Nick Leniuk
Title: Silent Lake
Date: 2024
Medium: wonderstone (pyrophyllite) on granite base
About the artist:
Nickolas Leniuk’s passion for artistic expression was influenced by early years in Kapuskasing Ontario, where forests, and lakes provided an endless backdrop of untouched wilderness. A self-taught artist, painstaking attention to detail is required to complete each hand finished piece.
“My art strives to capture and reflect the misunderstood and under appreciated beauty, grace, and wisdom of trees. Working only with natural materials, my self developed techniques use tools that are accessible, and I constantly challenge my capabilities. Trees play a critical role to our global stability, and my hope is that the art I create stimulates the important evolutionary connection between humans and their environment. If my work persuades people to see trees and their natural surroundings in a different, more caring light, I consider that a step towards healing our wounded planet.” – Nick Leniuk
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Exhibitions
Paul Nabuurs, Kawartha Highlands Reflected, 2023, acrylic on canvas
40th Anniversary: KAST Selections Exhibition
Jul 6, 2024 to Sep 29, 2024
Stephanie Ford Forrester, Northland Harmony, 2022, hand worked textile
Selections: 39th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour
Jul 8, 2023 to Oct 1, 2023
Miguel Hernández Autorino, Why I Left, 2022, oil on canvas KAST 2022 Selections Exhibition
Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour: Selections
Jul 9, 2022 to Oct 2, 2022
Installation view of KAST Selections exhibition. From Left: Paul Nabuurs, Bronson Smith, David Hickey
Selections: 37th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Exhibition
Jul 22, 2021 to Oct 3, 2021