“The work of Leonard, one of California’s leading abstract expressionist painters, is often influenced by German painter Gerhard Richter. “I’m pulling paint, layering one layer at a time, which creates a sense of history in the painting. It’s like looking at a fence post that’s been repainted over a period of time. You can see the different colors and layers,” he explained about his process. His paintings can have up to thirty or forty layers. Leonard has exhibited internationally and his paintings can also be found in private and corporate art collections across the United States and Europe.”– Hamptons.com, Nicole Barylski, November 2020 “Leonard’s compositions move the viewer’s eye vertically or horizontally across the space. The basic movement is complicated by laters of dripped, speckled, and fragmented colors that infuse not only a rich language of color, but also a visual history left to be discovered by the eye. Leonard’s inventive layering process results in heavy impasto, or textured, surfaces with a glossy, wet shine making them particularly beautiful when seen in person.”Urban Tulsa Weekly, Tulsa, OK