Patricia Leeds

Patricia Leeds is a multi-disciplinary artist. She works with encaustic: paintings with pigmented bee’s wax on paper and on wood panels, creating marks and abstract figures. She also creates digital paintings and works with oil painting as well. Her work has won international and national awards.

Encaustic is one of the oldest forms of painting, where beeswax, resin, and pigment are layered and fused to produce a luminous surface that captures and transforms light. Her encaustic on paper work starts by painting with pigmented bee’s wax and encaustic medium using a heated palette. She then lays a piece of archival art paper on the palette. The wax soaks into the paper transferring the image. She repeats this process, adding layer upon layer until she is pleased with the result. The exact design and thickness of wax can never be repeated, rendering a one of a kind painting.

Her digital paintings are created by compositing multiple photographs. She adds various effects and layers using a mix of applications. The finished image is printed on archival museum quality paper. and is hand signed on the back. These prints are all limited editions. She teaches classes in iPnoneography and has won numerous awards.

She also works with...

San Francisco State University

Group and Solo Shows

2019
Jen Tough Gallery
"Learning Curve"
Benicia CA

A Smith Gallery
"she"
Johnson City, Texas

Brewer Phillips
Solo Show
San Rafael, CA

2018
Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers
"Women see Women"
New York, New York

Colorworks
Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
Novato CA
Juror: Danielle Fox
Honorable mention


ARC Gallery
“Dreams”
San Francisco, CA
Juror: James Baachi

New York Center for Photographic Arts
“Portals”
New York, New York
Juror’s Award
Juror: Darren Ching


A Smith Gallery
“Chairs”
Juror’s award, 1st place winner
Juror: S. Gayle Stevens
Johnson City, Texas


2017

Solo Show
Atrium and Chambers Gallery
“Parallel Thoughts”
Tiburon, CA

ARC Gallery
“Flora and Fauna”
San Francisco, CA

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
“Hidden”
Novato, CA

Verum Ultimum Art Gallery
“Abstract Sanctuary”
Portland, OR

ACCI Gallery
“Boundaries and Balance
Berkeley, CA

2016

Artworks Downtown
“Marin Contemporary”
San Rafael, CA

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
“Art of the Spirit: Epiphany”
Mill Valley CA

Texas Photographic Society
“Moving past the camera”
Frisco, TX

O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
“Brilliance of Symbols”
Mill...