Through colour, constant editing and paring back I aim to express my feelings about the land either as a comment on current agricultural practises – monoculture, huge denuded fields and fluorescent colours –  this, by definition has a political dimension.  Also paradoxically to convey and celebrate the beauty I find and colour’s ability to elicit an inner and emotional response in the viewer. 

Through colour, constant editing and paring back I aim to express my feelings about the land either as a comment on current agricultural practises – monoculture, huge denuded fields and fluorescent colours –  this, by definition has a political dimension.  Also paradoxically to convey and celebrate the beauty I find and colour’s ability to elicit an inner and emotional response in the viewer. 

Colour is used in a way that is non-literal. Placing colours one against the other is intended to evoke a parallel to the atmosphere of the subject however different that colour is from reality.  Also by radical simplification of shape and composition I hope to stimulate a direct reaction in the audience.

The work is intended to be a document as well as an expression.

Ursula exhibits prolifically across the country and is in many private and public collections.

Trained: Winchester, Wimbledon & West Surrey College of Art & Design

Selected Most Recent Group Exhibitions

Ursula Leach     B.A. (Hons) Fine Art,  R.E.

Trained:  Winchester, Wimbledon & West Surrey College of Art & Design

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021               From Where I Stand, The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset

2020              Here and There, Oliver Contemporary, London

2017                 Within Bounds, The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset

2016                 The Colour of Things, Oliver Contemporary, London

2013 & 2010   The Art Stable, Blandford, Dorset

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021              Twenty Years, Oliver Contemporary, London

2020             Field and Feather, Two Person Show, The Slade Centre, Dorset

2020             Hatch Gallery, The London Art Fair, Islington,  London

2020/21       Nadia Waterfield Fine Art, Stockbridge & Bruton

2019              The Arborealists, Guest Artist, The Young Gallery, Salisbury

2019              Connect Art Fair with The Art Stable

2019              Summer Exhibition Campden Gallery, Gloucestershire

2019              Made in Britain, Oliver Contemporary, London

2017              The Masters Open, London

2017              Marshwood Arts Awards, Bridport

2017/16        Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum with Group 7

2016              The Gallery at Dukes, Dorchester with The Art Stable

2016 /18         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

2016/17/18    The Project Gallery, Arundel

2015/16/17/18 National Open Print Exhibition, London

2015 & 16     The Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Bideford, Devon

Collections: Ashmolean Museum,Worthing Hospital, St. Marks Hospital,London, Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, Dorset County Hospital, Kirklees Museums, The Curwen Archive, The House of Lords, The John Creasy Museum, Durham University & The Victoria & Albert Museum

Prizes & Awards:  Badger Press Award 2016, Dorset Art Weeks cover competition 2016, Intaglio Print Prize 2009, Curwen Studio Prize 2009, Dorchester Open Prize, South West Arts Award 1996, RK Burt Etching Prize 1993, Southern Arts Award 1989

Selected Articles, Reviews & Publications:  Within Bounds (Annette Ratusniak), The Colour of Things (Jane Rye), The Week 2016, Landscape Plotted & Pieced (Andrew Lambirth), The Wall Street Journal 2013, Open Frequency (Prof. Simon Olding) The Spectator 2012 (Andrew Lambirth), Circles & Tangents 2011 (Vivienne Light) Printmakers Secrets 2009, The Week 2008, 50 Wessex Artists 2007, The Week 2006, Galleries Magazine 2006, Collagraphs & Mixed Media Printmaking 2005, Elemental Insight 2004, Contemporary Art 1994.