Christian McLeod

Christian McLeod is a Toronto-based abstract painter whose vibrant works explore the kinetic energy of oil-based pigments colliding across his canvasses, the contemporary landscape, and the interplay of beauty and destruction. His process involves daubing, scraping, and layering oil-based colors, pushing and pulling mounds of oil-based colours until he has seized a sliver of time, a snapshot of change. In vibrant abstract works, McLeod interprets the beauty and destruction of the contemporary landscape, capturing the shift between a perceived image and the particles that comprise the whole picture.

A graduate of the Toronto School of Art (1992), McLeod has exhibited internationally, living and showing work in Spain (Ibiza), Mexico, and Germany. His paintings are included in corporate and public collections such as MHPM (Halifax and Calgary) and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, as well as in private collections across Canada, the U.S., Spain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

His paintings have also been chosen to represent charitable organizations (such as Casey House’s Art with Heart fundraiser) and for book covers for the University of Oxford Press. For two years in a row, McLeod’s paintings have been selected for “Ideas and Visions for a New Concept of Architecture,” a project with the School of Architecture, University of Valencia in Spain. His work has also been featured in recent articles in Chatelaine, Ottawa Magazine, and 1969. Christian McLeod’s painting ‘Perhaps the terrace of this garden overlooks only the lake of our minds’ will be published by Oxford Press on the cover of Philip Goff book – Consciousness and Fundamental Reality.