LÉONCE LEMMENS

Léonce Lemmens (b. 1955, Maastricht, The Netherlands) is a self-taught abstract painter, living in a small village near Zwolle, Netherlands.
She studied shortly at the Art Academy in Maastricht but changed her plans and accepted the challenge to work at a publicity agency. In the next decades she had a meandering career and worked in various organizations, from healthcare till international real estate finance. During those years she painted occasionally. This changed due a journey through the Mongolian Gobi desert, this experience reawakened whatever had drawn her to paint. She started painting again in 2014 and it has her full attention ever since, with the focus on abstraction.

Léonce Lemmens makes abstract expressionist paintings, she works with acrylics, oil, mixed media, ink and spray paint. In most paintings the compositions are build-up with many layers. Applied paint gets removed again, after which new layers are created with new elements and colors. It’s a playful and inquisitive process, resulting in pieces that tell their own story. The journey in life and career have influenced her artistic creations and reinforced her belief that art transforms spaces.

Léonce participated at international exhibitions -physical as well as digital- in Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Milan and New York.