Picture "Romantic Sea" (2014), framed

Leo Windeln, born in Heinsberg in the Rhineland in 1962, has been able to establish himself as a painter twice if you will. First, as a young man who began painting at the age of only 16 and received public recognition for his first exhibition already in 1980. Nevertheless, the 1980s were mainly an educational time for him. In addition to his self-taught attempts, he perfected his skills in the art of still life and landscape painting at the Free Academy of Roermond in Limburg, the Netherlands, among other places.

He paints exclusively with high-quality oil colours on linen stretcher frames. The technique is a mixture of wet-on-wet and layered painting. Like the 'Impressionists', Windeln always paints without using the black colour. The motifs primarily originate from the local area and trips abroad. As much as the love for detail is part of his paintings (for example through the elaboration of a stinging nettle or the changing colour of a leaf on a shrub), capturing the mood of the light is as essential. The eternal striving for perfection, just like his artistic role models, becomes comprehensible and contributes to the charm of his painting.