Leon Van Den Eijkel - 1940 to 2021 | 2021

Published 2021 by Globe Editions, Auckland
122 pages
210 x 210mm, softcover, with colour illustrations.
Edited by James Ross
With text by Leonard Bell, Miriam van Wezel and James Ross
Designed by Graham O'Neill
Printed by Crucial Colour
ISBN: 978-0-473-57901-2

Leon van den Eijkel worked in New Zealand from 1985 up until his death in April 2021. His early work in Wellington was primarily as a designer, but latterly his paintings and sculpture came the fore as his primary focus. An early adopter of new media - his work often utilised light boxes & digitally printed surfaces - he ended up in the last decades of his life as an accomplished maker of large scale sculptures, 2 major pieces being 'Red Cloud Confrontation' commissioned by collector Alan Gibbs for The Farm project and 'The Wellington Urban Forest' familiar to all those entering Wellington from the airport.