LENI KAE

Born in Sydney Australia, Leni has painted since childhood, completing her first oil painting at age 9.

Loving the ability to blend colours and create detailed works led to continued experimentation with oils, oil pastels, and drawing materials – the primary mediums utilized in her works today.

Leni’s attraction to the abstract arts is the ability to see and represent a world that is absent from the boundaries and expectations of our physical senses; a world coloured by personal passions, emotions, and dreams. Cubist and surrealist influences are largely evident in the majority of her work.

She is drawn on the one side to the fluidity of the surrealist form and its ability to express pure passion and dream. Concepts of love, torment, and sexuality, are subjects she finds easily explored through the application of this style. The challenge in such works is to see and understand the feelings that unite us as human beings.

On the other side, she is drawn to the structure, order and firm truth represented by the geometric form of the cubist style. The style facilitates the representation of both stillness and structured movement. It also allows the expression of simplified form, which may in fact seem complicated to the untrained eye. The challenge is to see and understand that each geometrical shape is vital in creating the painting as a whole; the whole cannot exist without the many. Similarly, applying this to society, individuals must learn the art of coexisting.

Website: www.lenikae.com