LEE Macleod

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Lee MacLeod was born in Los Angeles California in 1953. He attended Colorado College and graduated in 1976. He began studying at the Art Center College of Desigw in Pasadena, California in 1977. He completed his course work in 1980 and began his art career as an illustrator. His most visible projects were the final advertising art for the films “Batman”, “Howard The Duck”, and “Pocahontas”.

Lee MacLeod currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since moving to Santa Fe in 1993, Lee became interested in fine art, in particular plein air and studio landscape painting. In addition to being a member of the California Art Club, Lee is a member OPA, PAPNM, PAAC, OPS, LPAPA, and AIS. He has exhibited in the juried national shows of all of these organizations. He participated in the Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational in 2008, and the Paint the Rockies Plein Air Invitational in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Over the years he has had the fortune to study with a number of great artists. His associations with Santa Fe artists, Bill Gallen and Dave Ballew have been invaluable in formulating an approach to both seeing and painting the natural world.