Teacher Nick Leavey - Atelier Art Classes
About Nick
Nick teaches painting, drawing, and sculpture for beginners through to advanced students on Wednesdays between 9:30-12:30/1:00pm-4:00pm, also 6:30-9:30pm Thursday evenings. Figure painting and drawing on Saturdays.
As well as offering Private tuition
Nick Leavey attended Ravensbourne College of Art and Canterbury College of Art, Kent UK, before gaining a Post Graduate Certificate in Education at Brunel University. He taught design in high schools and tertiary institutions in the UK and Australia for over 20 years. An ongoing interest in fine representational art saw him return to full time studies at the Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney, where he won the Sydney Mechanics' Scholarship, The Marjorie Santow award for fine tonal drawing, and gained a Diploma in Fine Art.
Nicks work is represented in private and public collections in Australia and overseas, and his art practice encompasses Painting and Drawing, three-dimensional work, and Etching. For examples look below or goto Nick's personal website, www.nickleavey.com
Galleries
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Concept or tradition
Well, here's one I painted a few months ago. I'm sure I meant something deep and meaningful, and it is of course possible that the choice of character for each letter was important at both the superficial and the deeper and more spiritual level. Of course I could just be hiding the meaning behind a diatribe (which is as likely to obscure as hiding it behind a wardrobe), or it could just be that I propped up an old book of Roman lettering and placed a bunch of cheap toys in front of the book because I really like to paint still-life subjects. To be candid, I'm afraid that whatever my reason was, it has escaped me, but i'm sure the concept was sound. -
Collaroy
Collaroy is a beautiful cattle property which lies to the south west of Sarina in North Queensland. It, and a dozen or so surrounding properties are about to be lost forever under a dam. The purpose of of this destruction is to enable mining companies to wash coal. At last. Clean energy. Sickening really. -
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