Justin Leeming
Garrulus Garamond (lower case j)
£4,200.00
Acrylic on canvas
100cm x 100cm
Justin Leeming is a figurative painter, working primarily in acrylic on canvas. He studied Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at Leicester Polytechnic and has worked for 30 years in the design and print industry. He has continued to paint in his spare time and exhibited his artwork in both Saltaire and Ilkley Art Trails, The Bradford Open at Cartwright Hall and also at the Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington.
I remember receiving vouchers for an art prize at school and buying an illustrated bird book by Basil Ede, which contained a marvellous illustration of a Jay eating acorns. Back then Jays seemed rare as hen’s teeth and it was only when I moved to Yorkshire, 20 odd years later, that I started to notice them flit across the tree tops on my commute into work.
I recorded my painting’s progress on social media, and had to laugh when a relative expressed how much she loved my Bullfinch, despite the prominence of the lower case j set in Garamond.The latin for Jay is Garrulus Glandarius, and the painting is a play on both bird and type classification, entitled Garrulus Garamond (lower case j).
