ABOUT LÉONCE LEMMENS
Biography - Statement - Exhibitions
BIOGRAPHY
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.
STATEMENT
" I need to paint, I can't without. It's my creative outlet to translate my feeling and emotions on the canvas or paper.
I paint abstract and expressionist pieces with acrylics, oil, mixed media, ink, mediums and spraypaint. My paintings are originals and inspired by memories. In my paintings I try to capture the ephemeral - that which lies beyond words or reason. It's intuitive, my feeling and energy are leading in the moment. I love traveling, in particular the South of Europe is a great source of inspiration: the light, the colors, the mediterranean vibes. But I also find this in occurrences in daily life, cultures, contrasts spotted in nature or cities, architecture, people: their stories, where and how they live.
While painting I have no limits. I love to paint minimalistic black/white, but I often end up in colors. During the process I like to explore and mix colors and materials, maybe that's the reason. The result is that I sometimes mess up a painting, but this can also be the start of something unexpectedly new.
Painting is fun, although it sometimes can be a struggle: is it enough, finished, too much? However, it's always an adventure."
EXHIBITIONS & PARTICIPATIONS
2024
ART ON LOOP AMSTERDAM | digital display
September 5-8, 2024
THE HOLY ART GALLERY
EUROPARTFAIR AMSTERDAM | digital display
September 6-8, 2024
ART EXPO NEW YORK | digital display
4-7 April 2024 | Booth 107
WOMAN'S ESSENCE SHOW BARCELONA 2024 : WAA WOMAN ART AWARD 2024
MUSA INTERNATIONAL https://www.musaartspace.it/womans-essence-barcelona-202429-30-31-march/
BARCELONA | 29-31 March 2024
CIRCLE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
Participation in 10th issue of Circle Quarterly Art Review | page 102
https://circle-arts.com/circle_quarterly_10/
CONTEMPORARY ART CURATOR MAGAZINE
1st printed edition magazine Issue 1 "Top Contemporary Artists to Watch in 2024"
https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/printedmagazine p.116/117
https://issuu.com/contemporaryartcurator/docs/together_8_
2023 Represented by GALERIA AZUR BERLIN GERMANY
AATONAU Magazine Japan
December 19th, 2023 | Featured artist #521 : Journey through Lemmens' world of abstract expressionism
Léonce Lemmens: Painting Emotions, Weaving Stories:
https://aatonau.com/leonce-lemmens-painting-emotions-weaving-stories/
Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine #10 (12-2023)
Selected for publication with my artwork P!nk
https://circle-arts.com/circle_quarterly_10/
CONTEMPORARY ART CURATOR MAGAZINE
Online exhibition "Parallel worlds"
Exhibition period : 20.09.203-20.12.2023
https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/online-exhibition-parallel-worlds/leonce-lemmens
GALERIA AZUR BERLIN - Group exhibition SESSION03
28.04.2023-28.05.2023
BIJ BÄRBEL & VAN SPAENDONCK ART GALLERY ZWOLLE
Opening Group exhibition new location Art Gallery May 13th 2023
Open House June 28&29th 2023
ART GUIDE ANTWERP
Participation edition 2023
2022 Represented by MONAT Gallery Madrid Spain
MONAT Gallery Madrid
Group exhibition RENDEZVOUS
12.09.2022-12.10.2022
GALERIE 8 Hattem/Netherlands - SUMMER EXPO
05.07.2022-31.08.2022
CARROUSSEL DU LOUVRE, PARIS - ARTio Gallery Toronto Canada
08.04.2022-10.04.2022
BUTTERFLY EFFECT Online Exhibition
21.02.2022-21.07.2022
PARIS INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Art3f
Represented by MONAT Gallery Madrid
28.01.2022-30.01.2022
CIRCLE FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
https://circle-arts.com/?s=L%C3%A9once+Lemmens
THE WORLD REVOLVES AROUND ME | M.A.D.S. Art Gallery
Milano and Fuerteventura Online exhibition
28.01.2022-03.03.2022
WE CONTEMPORARY catalog by MUSA International | 11-2022 https://www.musaartspace.it/we-contemporary-rome-2022/
International Prize Paris | At Art Shopping Carroussel de Louvre | October 21-23, 2022
Certificate of Excellence 2022 Circle Foundation for the Arts | 06-2022
Voices of Tomorrow International Art Award by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine | 05-2022
Power of Creativity Art book devised by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine | 06-2022
Interview Contemporary Art Curator Magazine | 03-2022
read here: https://www.contemporaryartcuratormagazine.com/home-2/leonce-lemmens
2021 | Art Guides: Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Artists
2020 | Exhibition Colorida Art Gallery Lisbon (cancelled re. Covid)
2018 | Exhibition Gemeentehuis Hattem
2014 | Group exhibition Koetshuizen Elswout Overveen
LINKS
GALERIA AZUR BERLIN : https://galeriaazur.art/artist/leonce-lemmens/
ARTSY : https://www.artsy.net/artist/leonce-lemmens
CIRCLE-ARTS : https://circle-arts.com/leonce-lemmens/
ONLINE GALLERY ART : https://onlinegallery.art/nl/l%C3%A9once-lemmens/
EXTO : https://www.exto.nl/werk/358956414_Sahara.html