About the Artist

Leon Doucette is a painter and curator who was born in 1989 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He earned his BFA from The New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. His artwork, which has received both international and regional awards, has been shown primarily around New England, as well as in New York, California and Washington D.C. Awards include the Gold Medal at the Guild of Boston Artists' 2018 Regional Juried Exhibition and First Place Drawing at the Portrait Society of America's 20th Annual International Portrait Competition, and the Charles Movalli Gold Medal for Excellence in Painting at the Rockport Art Association & Museum in 2023. His work has also been selected as a finalist in multiple International Art Renewal Center Salon Competitions.

Since 2011, he has served on the curatorial staff of the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Selected exhibits he has assisted in organizing include Marsden Hartley: Soliloquy in Dogtown (2012) ,  John Sloan: Gloucester Days (2015), Drawn from Nature and on Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry Lane (2017), Homer at the Beach: A Marine Painter's Journey, 1869-1880 (2019) and Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape (2023).

Owing to his experiences as a curator in constant dialogue with artists of the past, Leon works in a traditional style, employing various academic techniques to create timeless, subtle images. He is interested in the mass and physicality of his subjects, using portraits, figures and still lives as a means to convey light falling across form.

Image above: Leon Doucette, Study for 'Self Portrait in a Pandemic,' 2020, graphite on paper, collection of the artist.