Gordon Leverton

A self-taught artist, Gordon Leverton's love of the urban environment has informed his painting practice, placing landscape and architectural design at the forefront. His portrayal of city’s architectural elements rendered with flattened perspective, bright colours, and strong play of light and shadow has become his signature style. 

Leverton breaks down the city into component parts. Shadows, buildings and skylines, all become part of the same plane and transform into pieces of a puzzle. Using thin washes of acrylic paint to achieve solid forms of colour, Leverton explores a theme common to the urban experience – how community connects us all. Leverton is currently exploring ways in harmonizing his urban subject matter through abstraction, and bringing focus to physical spaces that are overlooked or ignored as traditional subjects of landscape.

He was honored with the 2024 City of Hamilton Creator Arts Awards for his artistic work, elected to The Ontario Society of Artists and won the 2023 Art of Heritage Award from City of Hamilton and Hamilton Municipal Heritage Committee for his significant role in educating people on Hamilton’s heritage. 

Leverton is very active in the arts community by participating in the 2023 City of Hamilton - Locke Street Marker Public Art Project, a member of Society of Canadian Artists, Ontario Society of Artists, Hamilton Artists Inc. and Hamilton Arts Council. He was the founding member of the West Hamilton Artists Tour (W.H.A.T) and the co-founder of a new project called SOCIAL SPACE – artist-run pop-up arts and charity events.

His work has appeared in numerous publications, broadcasts, journals and media TV and movies and is widely collected, both nationally and internationally. Gordon lives in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and two children.