Veronica Leiton Biography

Veronica Leiton is a native of Santiago, Chile and has dedicated herself to painting for more than 23 years. Studying first at the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales in Audio-Visual Communications (B.A.), and later receiving another degree as a Crafts Instructor from Escuela Nacional de Artesania in Chile, she continued to hone her talents. Leitons's early work was in the field of photography and film. Much of her earlier work has been exhibited throughout Mexico and Chile. Leiton still involves herself in film festivals, and acts as juror for international photo competitions. But, she is prolific in her painting. She conducts 2-D workshops, privately and publicly, for particular projects and causes.

Her work continued in Mexico with her first solo exhibition in 1994 as a painter. Since then, she has risen in fame in her adopted home of Chihuahua. Her solo exhibitions and group exhibitions have been exhibited in more than 100 galleries and museums. Featured as cover images for books and in numerous magazines and newspapers, Leiton's work is celebrated in Mexico. Museums that regularly collect her work are: the De Chamizal Archeology Museum. Cd. In Juarez, Mexico, the National Institute of Fine Arts Museum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and the Museum "Casa Redonda" in Chihuahua, Mexico.

"The force of Leiton's work emanates from the rich combination of techniques and themes she develops through the process of painting itself. Using a variety of materials such as oils, watercolors, inks and acrylics, Leiton produces a series of contrasts that at once attract and repel, electrify and tranquilize within the same canvas. In her recent paintings Leiton superimposes and layers images and media to create multiple depths of field. The effect is a complex interweaving of simple elements that challenge the concepts of linear time and segregated space. Leiton's great love is color and she forcefully uses contrasting colors to create convergence and unity, to compose areas of visual counterpoint."
- Rosario San Miguel

Her extraordinary use of colors layered on canvas and then scraped away to reveal hidden dreamscapes continues to draw the viewer in to her abstract world. We are honored to be the exclusive gallery in America that carries her original work.

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