Parker Hart Studio

The COVID-19 pandemic launched some experiments with abstract art. 13 in all....

Nice to see this painting featured at SaltSpray Design!

Lee Leonard has created a stylish and interesting winter scene in this large 32x36" canvas. The soft light captures heart and mind., leading you ever deeper into the woods.

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Avaialable online for store pickup or shipping. Follow the link to purchase.

Networks, networks, networks. It's who you know.

The fascinating science of who succeeds in art This scientist made an algorithm to predict which artists succeed–without even looking at their art.

I've been pulling out some old monoprints.

Nice to see some of my work at the Eastern Shore's Gallery.

ArtWorks East Our 2023 summer gallery is OPEN at the Guyborough Marina
12pm-6pm Wed-Sun
See you soon!

Applique Quilting Learn how to do Appliqué Quilting from expert Alison Billard. Create a small finished product

Driftwood Frames Bring your creative minds to produce/craft a driftwood framed chalkboard sign. Sandy Winter will lead

Come join us!

Plein Air Event Plein air refers to open air painting, on site, in contrast to painting in a studio from memory or

ArtWorks East ArtWorks East (AWE) is an association of artists and crafters who live in Guysborough County.

Stopped by the Guysborough Waterfront Market today. Bought a fig tree from Mrs. Schultz, strawberries from Mr. Sullivan and checked out Artwork’s East beautiful gallery full of local art, bought a necklace and ate at The Humble Spud - A Meal In A Peel. But you can come just for the view.

It's now easier to send Parker Hart Studio a message.

Two more weekends! Last chance to buy some beautiful work.

Only 2 more weekends!
We are open Friday afternoon and all day Saturday and Sunday, but the AWE Summer gallery closes at 4 p.m .on Sunday September 5. Don't wait!

Music and Community Market on Saturday. Plein Air painting on Sunday. And AWE Summer gallery all weekend. Come visit!

22 and sunny for Saturday! Show number three comin your way!! Bring some extra cash for Autism Nova Scotia’s BBQ! Liam Brophy, Kyle Delorey and Janet’s dancers! Plus ArtworksEast and our local market!

Happy to be participating in this gallery. Hope to see you Friday or Saturday when I’m volunteering.

AWE Summer is in the Guysborough Journal this week!
Come see us. We'll be open Friday at 1:00 p.m. and all weekend.

Chedabucto Bay #10
12x12 oil on canvas

Chedabucto Bay #8.
12x12 inch, framed, oil on canvas

Chedabucto Bay #6
12x12 oil on canvas
More to come!

Chedabucto Bay #5
12x12 inch oil on canvas
See them all at Leeleonard.com

Chedabucto Bay #4
12x12 inch oil on canvas

Chedabucto Bay #3

Inspiration. Always looking.

"Green Age" (緑の時代), a 1968 abstract woodblock print, self-published by Yoshida Tōshi (吉田 遠志, 25 July, 1911 – 1 July, 1995), a twentieth century Japanese printmaking artist most closely - but not exclusively - associated with the sōsaku-hanga (創作版画, creative prints) movement.

Image size (h x w): 14 × 10cm. Edition size: 100

One of the most famous Japanese woodblock print artists of the 20th century, Tōshi was the eldest son of Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田 博, 1876 - 1950), a highly successful printmaker in the shin-hanga 新版画, new prints) movement, who specialised in the subject of landscape.

His mother, Yoshida Fujio (吉田 ふじを, 1887 - 1987), was also an accomplished Japanese artist, known for both naturalistic and abstract watercolours, oils, and woodblock prints; the first female artist in fact among the esteemed Yoshida family of artists.

During his childhood, an illness left him unable to attend school and he enjoyed watching animals and his father's printmaking workshop. Encouraged by his grandmother, Tōshi often sketched animals.

He later studied oil painting with his father and block carving with Maeda Yujiro, graduating in 1935 from the School of Taiheiyogakai, after which he travelled widely in India, Europe, and the US.

For most of his career, Tōshi famously struggled to balance staying loyal to his father and developing his own style, while seeking to renew the declining ukiyo-e tradition as a shin-hanga artist. Although he chose animals as his speciality in 1926, his early works through the 1950s, like 'Tokyo at Night' (1938), adopted landscapes in a style similar to his father’s. However, compared to Hiroshi’s elaborate, subdued and monumental landscape prints, Tōshi’s usage of rich and profound colour succeeded in expressing candid traditional Japanese scenery.

After World War II and the death of his father in 1950 he turned to abstract prints for several years in an attempt at a total break from his past. These experimental designs draw from expressionism and pop art with bold colour palettes. However, after a few years he returned to his original realistic style and his innate affinity for animals and birds, producing more realistic renditions of subjects from nature.

From 1971 to 1994, until the last years of his life, Tōshi worked almost exclusively on animal prints.

Tōshi was also a children's book illustrator. He wrote his own short stories and made illustrations in the "Animal Picture Book" series.

As with his father’s prints, Tōshi signed his artworks in pencil and very often the titles provided are in English.

Best in town.

Hi folks! It’s me Rosemary! Just thought I’d show my face and let you know much I appreciate your support over this last year! Red Sky continues to evolve and grow through all the bumps we have all been faced with this last year and with all the challenges a new business goes through. Thanks for everything! Lots of new things to come as the season changes! Spring vibes all the way!! 🌸.
Shout out to where I got my new fave blouse and to .hair.studio where I’m headed this afternoon for a fresh cut! 🌸.

Always experimenting

Amazing Japanese printmakers.

"Sun and Water" (太陽と水, Taiyō to mizu), a 1973 woodblock print, colour & ink on handmade Torinoko paper, by contemporary Japanese printmaker Fukita Fumiaki (吹田文明, who was born in Tokushima Prefecture (on the island of Shikoku) in 1926.

Water works, on the way to my studio

The colors and textures of an abstract painting pull you in.....

"Abstract art was the equivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words, but colors and lines." - Etel Adnan, Syrian-American poet, essayist, and visual artist
Here's one of my poetic expressions. "Absorption," 36 x 24, oil on canvas.

Something different. A little humor.