{"title":"Personal Matters | Barbara Leidl | October 2026","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\"\u003eI am a painter based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and I work mainly in portraiture, with a limited palette of earth pigments,  using traditional techniques in oil and egg tempera.  My work is a play between my interest in early painting and these traditional techniques and in contemporary portraiture.  I often place my models in what I can only describe as 'fictions.'  These stories are open to interpretation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\"\u003eArtists have always copied other artists - it is such a wonderful way of learning - but I am not engaged in making a pure copy.  I put together paintings from different sources that I am particularly drawn to,  such as in Medieval and Renaissance painting. By introducing these disparate elements into my paintings,  they become a kind of assemblage of sources and motifs. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\"\u003eI was born in Canada, and I received my Diploma in Painting (with Distinction), from the Alberta College of Art, and my MFA from Concordia University in Montreal.  I moved to the UK in 1996.  Living in Stroud for the past nine years,  I am inspired by the wonderful surroundings and the creative community I find here. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0935\/5873\/5185\/collections\/1_3a3b8146-6036-4ad4-ab3a-119ee8248e37.jpg?v=1789659440","url":"https:\/\/nwtiques.com\/collections\/personal-matters.oembed","provider":"Nicholas Wells Antiques","version":"1.0","type":"link"}