Painter · Born in 1964 - South Africa

Leonie Brown

The Unraveling: Threads of Courageous Beauty

Oil, Embroidery on Canvas
39x39in

$2,700

Delicious Hope by Leonie Brown, Painting for Sale on Select

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Despite Everything, I Still Bloom | Original Abstract Painting

Oil, Wax on Canvas
30x22in

$1,370

Surrender | Figurative Painting with Embroidery

Oil, Wax on Canvas
59x47in

$4,380

Leonie Brown

South Africa

Credentials

Established Artist
Major permanent collection
Works on commission

Stitching directly into the painted surface, the artist introduces thread as a physical act of repair that both disrupts and reconfigures the image. The needle’s resistance and the traces it leaves—wounds, scars, and fibre—are integral to the work, rendering the process visible beyond paint alone. Paint operates in fluid layers, while thread imposes structure through line and depth, marking labour and mending. Drawing from the concept of neuroplasticity, the practice reflects the brain’s capacity to form new pathways through repetition after trauma. Each stitched mark records both injury and restoration, acknowledging the lasting presence of repair without erasure.