Galway artist Leonie King lectured in printmaking and has organised print exhibitions in Galway such as ‘Western Artists’ and ‘Akin’. She studied at the London College of Printing and the Central School of Art and Design before travelling extensively, spending time in South America, India and Morocco. In her work foreign images and colours are brought home and blended with those of the Irish landscape: its patterns and textures and mists.

An awareness of the past transparently overlaid on the present is part of the underlying notion of her work and pertains to the sense of eternity, stretching both backwards and forwards. Her work is an endless balancing of dynamics, of coloured texture over variant coloured texture.

Her inspiration comes from an interacting of the emotional with reflections of the surrounding area, both present and past. The effervescent colour changes of the sea and land transpose themselves into multi-layered prints that are responses to a communing with soil, rock, and that which ekes out an existence on it, and underneath the surface of the earth.

King's work is in many private and public collections, including London University Library; Gower Street Bank Of Ireland; National University Ireland, Galway and Galway County Council.