Winner of the Winsor & Newton 1st Prize at the 2013 RWS Contemporary Watercolour Competition!

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The Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Watercolour Competition is an annual competition open to non-Members held at the Society's gallery next to Tate Modern on London's South Bank.

Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH

22nd February - 3rd March 2013 11am - 6pm daily

The next Wall Street Journal illustration

My latest Wall Street Journal illustration came out yesterday with an article "China Fluffs Up Cotton Price" in the Commodities section. I'm very pleased with how the graphics and the artwork work together.

Exhibitions

This week I was delighted to hear that two of my paintings have been selected for juried art exhibitions in London next month.


Locksmith, 2nd Avenue, New York will be showing at the Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Exhibition at Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH from Friday 22nd February until Sunday 3rd March 2013

http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk


Standpipe, Tribeca, New York will be in the in the Lynn Painter- Stainer Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1Y 5BD from Tuesday 19th February until Saturday 2nd March 2013

http://www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk

The Artist's Magazine's 2012 Annual Art Competition

I am very excited to have received an Honorable Mention in the Landscape Interior category of The Artist's Magazine's 29th Annual Art Competition for Chambers Street, Tribeca, New York. All the winners are announced in the December 2012 issue.

Leo's new website

Check out Leo's new website:

http://www.leon.cat/

2nd Wall Street Journal Commodities Illustration

The 2nd of my series of Wall Street Journal Commodities appeared in the paper this morning. And this time it was on the front page of the Money and Investing section:

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Sustainable Seafood Event

Some of my seafood images have been used for invitations, chef and station posters, reception and direction signs and menu cards for a delicious event last week in Washington, DC. They were designed by Kuniko Davidson of the Smithsonian Institution.