What I do

Most of my paintings start with snapshots or 'stills' grabbed from video.  These sources, because they are casual and opportunistic, offer the best way to capture a fleeting moment (off-guard, just as it was); moments where chance elements and imperfections might suggest something deeper (camera vérité).

 

Working with subjects found in this way, I use digital and on-the-canvas processes to explore the subject content, visual qualities, suggested ideas, stories, references and meanings.

Reflecting this plurality, my work tends to combine realism and interpretation and a varied range of paint techniques and effects. 

 

​About me

A Fine Art graduate and teacher, then Director of a university IT unit developing art and digital photography software - now retired and painting as much as I can.

 

Based in the UK, I frequently show paintings in open and group exhibitions and have work in collections in Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Ireland and the UK.

 

​Thanks for looking at my work. I hope you find some interest and enjoyment in it.  

Mick Leetham-Cooper

'Earthscape #5 The Bridge' - group exhibition, Brynmor-Jones Gallery

Luc receiving his portrait - 'Luc (un petit poisson, un petit oiseau)'

'Landfall' - as displayed in the home of D and K Gale

'Enclosure and Earthscape #3' - ERA / National Trust Exhibition 'From the Earth', Nunnington Hall