Genevieve Leovold

Based in Somerset UK. Genevieve Leavold is a British abstract painter. Predominantly known for her

freeform, organic paintings, her reverence for spontaneous gesture draws from Zen, Buddhism, and

other philosophies that embrace the concept of universal consciousness . She developed an early

fascination with Eastern Philosophy from her mother, a Religion and Philosophy teacher.

Originally trained in scenic painting and theatre design, she translates forms from nature into vibrant

abstract paintings, bringing the viewer into a place which exists in the fringes of the visible

landscape.

“I hope to take the viewer on a journey into another world, one that sits below the surface, a

world of energetic exchange and flow. I feel that this can only be expressed in abstraction,

removing the preconceived ideas and speaking in a language of colour and movement ”

Her whole approach is immediacy; working wet colour into wet and layering glazes gives her work its

recognisable softness and movement.. Characterised by sweeping forms emerging from a dark

background, her paintings developed from observations of nature in man-made environments.

This signature painting style developed when she moved to Belgrade Serbia in 2014, relocating to a

new country where she knew very little of the language gave her the space and fresh perspective to

dig into the themes and forms which are expressed in her paintings. She returned to the UK in 2022

and is now based at Silk Mill Studios in Somerset.

Genevieve Leavold has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and the USA, and she has paintings in

private and corporate collections worldwide.