Ron Léger​ is an Art teacher, painter and printmaker living and working in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He continues to find a balance between time with his family, full time teaching and creating art. He currently works as an Art at Leo Hayes High School and instructs and organizes art workshops for teachers and artists. In 1986 he graduated from Mount Allison University majoring in printmaking with a minor in painting. It was in his final year that he received the Muriel Hewson Philp Prize for drawing. In 1992 he graduated with and Education degree from the University of New Brunswick where he received the Tom Acheson Prize in Art Education. His work is in numerous public and private collections.

 

Artist Statement

Among the principal influences in my work are the landscapes and environments that surround me. I have taken from the places I have lived and traveled in order to evoke the themes of myth, memory, and my immediate impressions of these places.

As such, the process of my work involves interpreting these experiences through metaphorical and representative means. I am drawn to an experimental approach in my paintings, and for some time, have explored the use of collage, impasto applications and text in the work.

By creating works which deal with the landscape and our collective environment I hope to draw our attention to the world around us and our connection, or disconnection, to this place we inhabit.

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Ron Léger​

2019