Painter, draughtsman and printmaker, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America, who in 1981, the year she moved to Britain, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in anthropology and French. From her arrival, Leech studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art, funded by a three-year Pennsylvania Thouron Scholarship; studied wood engraving with Kathleen Lindsley; and gained a postgraduate diploma in 1985. In 1983 she was included in Scottish Print Open Three, organised by Dundee Printmakers’ Workshop. Was elected president of SSA. Exhibitions included University of Pennsylvania, 1986; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, 1988; Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 1990; and Boundary Gallery, 1995, a show based on sketches made during through Africa and Asia, 1991–3.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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