Leon Morrocco, like his father Alberto, enjoys the medium of pastel. For many, like the French Intimiste Vuillard, pastel is a soft, suggestive medium, but for Morrocco the immediacy and strength of pigment produces a clarity of drawing as exemplified here. A simple motif: the still life posed on a hall chair, is in sharp focus while the delicacy and depth of the soft medium is brilliantly deployed.
Leon Morrocco, the eldest son of painter Alberto Morrocco, was born in Edinburgh and studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and The Slade before Edinburgh College of Art. He was a lecturer in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art from 1965-1968, and then took up a similar post at Glasgow School of Art from 1969- 1979 before moving to Australia to take up the post of Head of Fine Art at the Chisholm Institute in Melbourne. He has been painting full time since 1984.