Mary Ann Leitch

Emerging with the "Ladies" series, she sensuously depicted the "femme fatale" figure on large canvases with oils and on paper, pastels. These works are available today by Giclee printing and in a published book form, "Art by MAL - Ladies".

To satisfy a desire to paint visual legerdemain, she produces fantasy still lifes with objets d'art. This style surfaced recently in the "Falling Fruit thru Clouds" series of paintings and pastels numbering 22 fruits on canvas, paper, wood panels and pigment printing on aluminum.

In breaking her realist’s boundaries plus expanding to mixed mediums, the works on paper groups "Legs”, "Luvs" and "Mini Legs" evolved eventually leading to the non-representational series "Exploration". Fields of sensual color, impasto lines of movement, glimmers of glitter and cut glass jewels come together for an opulent celestial voyage. Her tones of color are uplifting, the use of mineral stones nu-age in spirit and the light reflecting objects or areas touched with iridescent powders subtly appear and disappear with viewing angles or room light.

She has come full circle to the "Resolution" series of abstract-realism works; combining acrylic with attachments to include themes of beaches, horses, ri...