Leonie Sharrock is a multidisciplinary artist working across a range of media and outcomes that include Drawing, Painting, Bas-Relief, Collages, Print and Sequential Art.

Born in Singapore and brought up in East Africa, North Wales, England, Germany and Spain, she married and settled in the South Wales Valleys in 1986.

Leonie’s BA was in Fine Art, her PGCE in Art and Design, specializing in Ceramics and Animation, her MA was in Screenwriting and her PhD by Practice-Research was titled ‘Touching Story’ and involved the processes of creating two contrasting graphic novels, with an emphasis on how tactility and experience of the analogue material world affects the nature of the stories we tell.

She has spent most of her adult life as an artist-teacher across all age groups, the last two and a half decades as a Senior Lecturer in Animation at the University of South Wales. Her paintings are in private collections in Britain, Spain, Australia and Argentina.  Leonie’s work is predominantly figurative and she sees the varied outcomes of her work across media as a continuum of her artistic expression and storytelling. As to the themes in her work, Leonie says:

“I am intrigued by landscapes, their shapes, their nature, their geology and geomorphology, but also by the landscapes of the body, and how the human body fits into and affects landscape, along with the stories we tell to bind us to the forms we live in. Therefore myth, folktale, history, the constructs of place, persona and memory, all are woven into my work which deals with layers of meaning and of process.

I am interested in showing what lies beneath the surface of the world – not in a revelatory way, but by inviting my fellow curious travelers to take the time to look and contemplate. For them to seek within the analogue material layers of collage, print, or textured paint in my work, some connections and resonances we all share, and hopefully find a place of belonging.”