UK contemporary artist Leo du Feu was born and brought up in Scotland. He graduated in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art in 2006 and has lived as a full-time freelance artist ever since.

Landscape, wildlife, environment. Story, myth, history, mystery. These are big interests and inspirations to Leo's art. Nature is the key thread running through it all. One of Leo's top passions is sketching and painting from life, out in the landscape around Scotland, often travelling by train in his role as a ScotRail Community Rail Champion. 

When working outdoors Leo uses watercolour, pastel, ink, pencil and more. Back in his studio Leo chiefly works using Golden Acrylics on canvas, board or card depending on the scale. Wood engravings are another part of Leo's repertoire and these two are handcut and handprinted in his studio. He is a member of Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop.

Leo and his wife live with their young family in the Kingdom of Fife in the thriving coastal town of Burntisland on Scotland's beautiful east coast. A few years ago a large Railway Heritage Trust grant funded Leo's renovation of a disused building on the platform at Burntisland railway station. The building is now Leo's studio, tall windows looking across the waters of the Forth to Edinburgh. Burntisland Station Studio brings together Leo's love of rail, art and the Scottish coastline.

Leo has received grants and travel awards from The Bet Low Trust, The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW), the Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) and a Creative Scotland and Fife Council VACMA. In the past Leo has been supported by SYHA Hostelling Scotland, Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative, a hotel chain and Linlithgow's Far from the Madding Crowd independent bookshop (frequent Scottish winner of Best Independent Bookshop).

Leo happily undertakes commissions. He paints large scale imaginative and realistic works for client's homes and also for corporate and public settings. His largest commission to date comprises four 4-metre tall paintings for the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. His most publicly visible commissions are two large mural triptychs at Dalry railway station in North Ayrshire and a very recent large triptych for the Friends of Wemyss Bay Railway in an iconic station on Scotland's west coast.

Leo offers private tutoring and runs workshops for art groups, schools, organisations and privately. For many years he has worked with Scottish charity Art in Healthcare. He is one of the lead Artist Facilitators on their Room For Art social prescribing programme.

Leo gives lots of talks about his life as an artist and about his Scotland By Rail art and nature adventures. Among the festivals and groups he has spoken to are Linlithgow Book Festival, Further From Festival (Linlithgow), Nairn Book & Arts Festival, Blackwell's Bookshop, the Saltire Society, Friends of the RSA, Scottish Arts Club, University of the Third Age, Rotary Clubs, art groups and railway groups.

Leo has two books published:
- Sketches from Canada. 2010.
- Landscapes & Birds of Scotland: an Artist's View.
   J.Mills Publishers, Northern Arts imprint, 2013.

Please get in touch via the Contact page if you wish to:

- sign up to Leo's art emailing list

- visit Leo's studio

- buy artworks or discuss commissioning a bespoke piece

- book Leo to give a talk

- discuss workshops or tutoring

Or just to chat!

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