Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Kitchener, Ontario
Occupation
leighcooney.com
About
Raw, honest, self taught art:
www.leighcooney.com
Leigh Cooney is a globally collected, Irish born Canadian "pop-folk" artist. Due to the self-taught nature of his paintings he is most closely associated with the marginal artists known as "Outsiders."
Leigh has no formal training in the arts, preferring to experiment on the canvas. Despite being self-taught, Leigh is an accomplished full-time artist with paintings in galleries and private collections all over the world from South Africa, France, England, Australia, and Ireland, to most American States and of course Canada. In 2010, after painting for only two years Leigh left his day job to dedicate his life to the arts.
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