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Genevieve Leavold is a British abstract painter known for her complex gestural abstract oil paintings. Blending traditional oil painting techniques and contemporary vision, her paintings take inspiration from the natural world, with a focus on movement and light.

​Leavold's paintings, though inspired by nature, are not an imitation, instead, they are visual stories of the profound connection between humanity and the natural world. Growing up surrounded by the lush landscapes of Somerset, England, Genevieve Leavold developed a profound connection to nature. She spent much of her youth exploring the fields and woods near her home, and a rich inner world connected the mythical to the real. Her paintings have a capacity to take the viewer out of the known world, into a place on the fringes, a world of energetic exchange.​

​Each piece begins by embracing darkness, the state from which all creation emerges. From this rich darkness, soft, spiralling forms reach out. The paintings are built up in layers of transparent glazing and opaque brushwork, giving a distinct depth to the finished pieces.

"I believe that we emerge from darkness into light, that we are seeking this clarity and beauty in the world. When I paint I find that I can access this place of wonderment, the same one I feel in Nature. I want my paintings to bring this into a physical form".

Genevieve Leavold has exhibited widely in the UK, USA and Europe and has paintings held in private and corporate collections worldwide.