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Leo Brown Bahamian Artist

Leo Brown Bahamian


Last Updated: 12/4/2009

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Gender: Male
Status: Married
Age: 40
Sign: Virgo

City: Freeport Grand Bahama
Country: BS
Signup Date: 3/13/2007

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February 19, 2009 - Thursday 

Category: Art and Photography
Bridge To Paradise Island



Painting Size 34x41

Nassau Harbor



Painting Size 33x48
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February 17, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Travel and Places
BAHAMASAIR



 Commission by BahamasAir 2009
Painting size 38x64

Painting can be seen behind the BahamasAir ticket counter at the airport in Grand Bahama.
 
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February 15, 2009 - Sunday 

Category: Art and Photography

The reason I was inspired to paint this portrait of Barack Obama. It is the manner in which he ran his campaign, even when things got tough he held his composure.

He inspired a generation of young and old, black and white.
Against overwhelming odds, he believed that he could be president. If you can believe in something and see it in your mind and work hard at it, you can make it happen.





The 44 President of the United States, Barack Obama




Limited Adition Lithographs Are Now Available. 

Title: The Rising Son
44th President of the United States Barack H. Obama

Print Size 22x28
Cost $60.00 Plus Shipping & Handleing

Phone (242) 3731758

Email-leobrown819@hotmail.com

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February 13, 2008 - Wednesday 

Category: Art and Photography








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Famous Shopping Centre Depicted In Its Days Of Old
By K. NANCOO-RUSSELL
Freeport News Reporter

Painter Leo Brown has managed to transform the International Bazaar back to its former glory in an oil and acrylic painting, depicting the shopping mecca in its days of old.
Brown's 50' by 68'' painting, titled "International Bazaar," took him eight months to complete and was indeed a labour of love.
It is comprised completely of a series of meticulous dots and horizontal and vertical contour and hatching lines.
"You really have to look at it to see the amount of detail and texture that's in the painting, you just can't look at it at first glance," Brown explained.
"When you come close, you start to see all the work that really went into it."
Brown said the inspiration to paint the Bazaar came from his childhood memories of visiting that location.
"When I was a kid growing up,  my childhood friends and I spent a lot of time in the Bazaar. We would buy lunch at China Temple, we would walk across the street to what used to be the Bahama Princess to a pond there where we would feed the goldfish."
Brown said despite the closing of the Royal Oasis Hotel, the decline in visitor arrivals to the island, and the subsequent slow-pace of business at the Bazaar, he remains hopeful that the Bazaar can one day pick up where it left off as a popular tourist attraction.
"I believe that whatever God does, he does it for a reason. I believe that we just need to keep the faith and God will work things out in his time," he said, adding that he always tries to view the glass as being half-full rather than half-empty.
"Sometimes we don't always understand why things happen, there's a lot of things I don't understand, but I believe. We need to believe in an endless hope, rather than a hopeless end. I believe that the Bazaar will come back, it's just a matter of time, we just have to have patience."
The painting will remain as a part of his private collection, he said, and will not be sold.
However, Brown said, he will have a limited number of lithographs produced which will go on sale.
The artist, who has been painting since the age of nine, explained that the technique used in his work is an impressionistic one.
"I'm considered to be an impressionist. Impressionist artists see the world from a different perspective. We are the official painters of tomorrow. We use a lot of bright colours, we use all the colours imaginable," he said, noting that although his style of using dots and lines is very tedious, the end result is "very glorious."
Brown said when he spends a lot of time on a painting, he forms a type of bond with it.
"Some of my customers ask, 'How are you able to sell them?' and my response to that is, 'Once it brings someone else joy, it makes you feel good to know that you're not just painting pretty pictures, but you're making someone else happy," he said.
"Whenever they look at that picture, it will put a smile on their face."
Brown's paintings are hung in households across the United States, Canada, Europe and other countries of the world.
His work, he said, appeals to persons with a range of different interests because his subjects are varied.
"I paint the things that I see, I paint the things I imagine, and sometimes I combine them both. I find the beauty in all things. I could be painting tropical fish, portraits, architecture, fantasy or dreams, but I try not to limit myself to anything, and I try to find the beauty in all things," he said.
"I paint something for everyone. I paint a little bit of everything, that way art is not boring to me, its not monotonous. A lot of different things appeal to me, so I try not to limit myself."
Brown said he has reached a point in his career where he can focus for hours on end upon the task at hand.
"I can work for a very long time, up to about six-eight hours on a painting non-stop, without interruptions," he said.
"But because of the technique I'm using, I'm using very, very small bits of paint of the canvas, I can be working on a certain section of the painting for about five hours, but it still looks as if I didn't do that much. But the more you work on it, the more it comes to completion. You start to see it come together."
A graduate of the Miami Institute of Fine Art and Design, Brown has been the owner and operator of Leo's Art Gallery in the Port Lucaya Marketplace for the past 16 years, where his work is viewed by hundreds of visitors on a weekly basis.
His paintings go from $60 up to $6,000 and he also produces special paintings as commissioned by customers.
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES – Artist Leo Brown gestures to one of his paintings as he explains his inspiration for painting the International Bazaar as he remembers it from his childhood days.


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April 2, 2007 - Monday 

Category: Art and Photography
 
Do you think you do not have a gift, I know you do. You just have to believe in yourself and stop limiting yourself. If you tell yourself no, you will never have the courage or the will to get up and go out there and be the bright shining star that you suppose to be. May be you need to show some one what you can do, or tell someone.  So get up right now and go out there and do the best you can with what you have. I know you can do it.
I enjoy creating wonderful works of art. Painting is my passion and the world is my canvas. I do not limit myself,  I paint in variety of techniques. Art is an expression of the soul, I paint what I see, how I feel and what I imagine.
 So, have fun!  
For more information about my art, go to:
http://www.bahamasvacationguide.com/leobrown 
 http://www.bahamasvacationguide.com/leobrown/leosgallery.html
 


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