geoffrey leckie

“I think I most enjoyed painting from Elephantine Island. It was a place you could walk around to paint untroubled by hoards of tourists. Also at night, looking west across the Nile it reminded me of being back on the Giudecca looking at Venice.”
— geoffrey leckie

Born 1949, Buffalo NY, Geoffrey studied Architecture at the University of Virginia. After three years he wen on to study painting and drawing at the Art Students League of NY, principally with Frank Mason. He maintained a studio in NY until moving to Venice in 2000. While there, of course, Geoffrey painted Venice as well as many other places in Italy and around Europe.

Geoffrey has also painted in Romania, India, Morocco, Vietnam and Syria.

In 2016 he bought an old Dutch farmhouse in New York’s Hudson Valley, and has again been painting in NY, Maine and Vermont.

This year, Geoffrey has been twice over to Ireland to paint in places where he painted in the late 70’s. He is teaching a watercolour course this September at the London Fine Arts Studios.

Watercolour painting of rocks by a river with a sailboat, hills, and a castle in the background.
Watercolour painting of ancient ruins with tall stone columns and a large stone wall, under a blue sky with no clouds.
Watercolour painting of pyramids at sunset with palm trees in the foreground.
Watercolour painting of a desert landscape with a tall, rectangular stone structure in the foreground and distant mountains under a clear sky.
West Bank of the Nile from Elephantine Island_ 10_x14 1_2_.jpeg
Our Helmsman on the Nour el Nil_ 10_x14.jpeg