About the Artist
Leon Francois Dumont is an emerging self-taught artist who has picked up oil paints for the first time in 2019 after a creative hiatus. Inspired by baroque 16th/17th century influences, his portraiture plays with light and shadow, often starting with the basis of a colourful but limited palette and continuing with instinctive, expressive mark-making.
Since 2021 Leon has branched out into using Gouache paints in a graphic style inspired by the posters of the golden age of steam and air travel.
