Leonard Wren
| "I
have nothing in mind when I go out to paint, it's enjoyable to just load up the
van with my artist's box and drive around looking for paintings." - Leonard
Wren The subjects in Leonard Wren's paintings - swans at rest, ordered gardens, bright riots of wildflowers - lead you to believe that the Tulsa, OK, painter spends most of his time peacefully surveying idyllic, nonexistent places. But in fact, it's the everyday world that provides Wren with inspiration. Wren refers to himself as an "American Impressionist" and shrugs off those who criticize the style as trite. He considers the style's accessibility and popularity a plus. "Impressionism is like the blues," Wren says, "It's so basic that it touches you profoundly." *Courtesy Southwest Art, February 1997 |