Leanne White is a Southwest Visual Artist and Children’s Book Author/ Illustrator. As a fine artist her focus has been on recording the natural heritage of our environment: landscape alone or with flora, fauna or figures. Her vibrant, spontaneous, and colourful use of paint captures the movement of the landscape and its inhabitants in an illustrative narrative style. She has participated in many exhibitions, both solo and group. She currently has her own Studio Gallery on the main street of Nannup.
Leanne has had much involvement in public art as her role as an arts educator, teaching art for many years in both primary and secondary schools and as an adult arts educator. She has herself completed or worked alongside other artists on large murals and public artworks. As a regional artist her involvement has encompassed the Kimberley, Pilbara, Lower Great Southern and the Southwest.
In her capacity as an illustrator, Leanne has published many Children’s Picture Books, including the popular William the Wild series. In 2018 Emerald the Green Turtle’s Tale, illustrated by Leanne and authored by Aleesah Darlison, was nominated for the Speech Pathology Book of the Year award. In February 2020 Leanne was awarded a scholarship to study with the US Children’s Book Academy in illustration, graduating in November.
Leanne will be working with the primary students from the Mallee schools, Munglinup, Scaddan, Cascade, Salmon Gums and Condingup, creating paintings inspired by wings of wildlife.
IMAGE BY MARK WHITE
Thank you to our sponsors, our Artist in Residence program is funded by the Esperance Ag Fund disbursed by the Fremantle Foundation.