Summer Days (watercolor) - prints are available from the artist Leonard was born in Orange, New Jersey where he attended public school and was graduated from East Orange High School in 1962. Upon graduation Leonard worked for an advertising agency in Montclair until his induction into the Armed Forces. His separation from the U.S. Air Force in 1970 led him back to his Hometown where he joined the police department. Leonard served seven years on the Orange Police Force. While with the p.d. he decided to go back to art school part-time. After one year of study Leonard was asked by one of his instructors to try to get accepted fulltime. He was accepted to Parsons School of Design as an illustration major. From there he studied at the Art Students League and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts. Leonard has lived in the area since 1983 and worked in the casino industry until 1997, when he left to pursue his art career on a full-time basis. Leonard is currently doing custom framing at a local craft store. 
Leonard works in pen and ink, pastel and acrylics and watercolor. He has shown his work throughout the North and South Jersey area, in Chicago, and at the Philadelphia Art Expo. A member of the Atlantic City Art Center, he has shown his work there as well as The Ocean City Art Center, where he completed a one man show in March of 2002. He has painted several murals in Brigantine and has recently completed a restoration of the Kentucky Avenue Jazz Mural. He was also commissioned to paint the portrait of the late Mr. James Usry, former Mayor of Atlantic City, for the new day care center named in his honor. In association with the Minority Board of Atlantic Cape Community College, Leonard was commissioned to paint one of the lighthouses in their Beacons of Light program.Mr. Wilkinson is available for murals, pastel portraits and his beautiful “Heritage Portraits” which are done in pen and ink from photographs; a great way to restore and preserve the heritage and history found in old family photos. He may be contacted at the following address and phone number: 1059 Ocean Heights Avenue, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey 08234, (609) 641-6661. One-man Shows
Group Exhibitions
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