Leigh Hewson-Bower - Artist - Seascape Paintings

Leigh Hewson-Bower’s majestic and iconic landscape and seascape paintings reflect his fascination with the technical skills shown by the Masters. Leigh is a widely travelled artist who has established himself as a leading landscape painter in Perth Western Australia. He has had an interesting and varied career in the arts that has included commercial photography as well as painting sets for the Australian Ballet, full sets for the Western Australian Ballet and Opera and the Australian Opera. Leigh has held many solo and group exhibitions in Perth, Sydney and Adelaide and his work is represented in private and corporate collections both national and international.

Leigh Hewson-Bower - Artist Biography

Leigh Hewson-Bower was born in 1947 in Melbourne. From an early age, Leigh Hewson, as he was then, showed a passion for drawing and painting; in his father's hardware shop in Melbourne he would sit at the counter drawing for hours at a time, much to the customers' amusement. In his early teens, he made copies of his favourite artists' work; da Vinci , Rembrandt, Van Eyck; these were the people that provided endless fascination for any young artist. It was about this time that Leigh sold his first painting, a nude study, for the sum of $400 dollars, which seemed like a fortune in 1963.

After four years of study at Caulfield where Leigh Hewson-Bower was awarded the annual prize three years running, he left with a Diploma in Fine Art/ Painting. Several years of working in commercial photography followed, travelling to Europe and South East Asia on various assignments. Exhibitions of photography and large abstract paintings at Consortium Galleries in Adelaide attracted favourable reviews.

In 1983 Leigh Hewson-Bower moved to Perth to help set up a production company for the construction and painting of theatre sets. The years that followed saw him painting 20 meter wide cloths for the Australian Ballet, full sets for the West Australian Ballet and Opera, and the Australian Opera, and in addition, pursuing a career as an artist, exhibiting at Perth Galleries.

Over the last few years the success of his landscape and seascape paintings has allowed him do devote his full time to the pursuit of excellence that began many years ago with a young boy fascinated by the astonishing technical skill shown by the Masters.

• 1947 Born Melbourne, Victoria
• 1967 Graduated with Diploma of Fine Art in Painting,Caulfield Institute of Technology.

 

Exhibitions

• 1978 Consortium Galleries, Adelaide, solo exhibition of photography.
• 1979 Consortium Galleries, Adelaide, group show of paintings.
• 1980 Consortium Galleries, Adelaide, group show of paintings
• 1993 Perth Galleries, solo exhibition of paintings
• 1994 Perth Galleries, solo exhibition of paintings
• 1995 Perth Galleries, solo exhibition of paintings
• 1995 Winner, Wanneroo Art Prize
• 1996 Perth Galleries, group show of paintings
• 1998 Aspects of Fremantle, Moores Building,Fremantle.
• 2000 WA Print Award exhibition, Moores Building, Fremantle.
• 2001 Centenary of Federation Kings Park Calendar
• 2002 Melbourne on Hay Gallery, Perth
• 2007 Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2008 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney
• 2009 Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2009 Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney
• 2010 Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2011 “Reference Points” Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2012 “A Sense Of Place” Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2013 “Back to the Island” Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2014 “The Kimberley Series” Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2015 “From The Boat” Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2016 “Signature Works” Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2016 “Islands” Red Sea Gallery, Singapore
• 2017 Linton and Kay, Perth WA
• 2018 Linton and Kay, Perth
• 2019 "Intrinsic Form" JahRoc Galleries, Margaret River WA
• 2020 "South West Shorelines" JahRoc Galleries, Margaret River WA

Prizes

• Winner, Wanneroo Art Prize 1995

Collections

• Represented in private and corporate collections in Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Singapore, Hong Kong and United Kingdom.