MILKWOOD STUDIO & LEO E. OSBORNE 2021-2022
December 30, 2021As we near the winter solstice and turning of the sun to give us more daily light, I feel grateful to be alive and living peacefully with my wife Jane Lane, love of my life, on a small island in the great Pacific Northwest, and still doing my work.
2021 has been a great year for me, in having been included in several museum exhibitions and shows at the galleries that represent me. I will continue to submit work to international shows as I have two new bronze editions about to come out at the turning of the year. My work shall be again included in the Environmental Impact II Exhibition tour which begins in February2022 at the Bateman Centre of art in Victoria, BC. I can only hope that the border can be crossed at the time of the opening at the centre, which as the raven flies is only a few miles across the waters of the Salish Sea, but governmental regulations with the Covid Pandemic means that borders may yet again close and the inability to be in groups may not allow for a proper opening of this fantastical exhibition of international importance.
There are two shows scheduled for my paintings in January and in October of 2022. This year, my 74th, saw me complete another wooden burl original sculpture, this time with snails as the subject. The Fibonacci Spiral, The Golden Ration has influenced my thinking in that dimension and the love of snails, AMOUR D’ESCARGOT is the completion of this idea. My new paintings have been most stimulating to create for they embrace yet again the 20-year evolution of my discovered technique of oxidation with leaf and the use of acrylic paints ;and mediums. This group of works are in the theme of The Mystical Light of the Pacific Northwest. I am very excited to see the public response to this re-inventing of myself and this medium of choice.
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