Exhibitions

Homecoming
Solo Exhibition

Burgh Halls Gallery, Linlithgow
May 22nd – September 13th 2026

Platform Artists Open Studios

May 23rd – 24th 2026

Central Fife Artists Collective

September 5th – 6th & 12th – 13th 2026
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Key Dates

2025
Recipient of Fife VACMA award funded by Creative Scotland and Fife Council & administered by Fife Contemporary and Fife Cultural Trust. To travel by train to four locations around Scotland and in each of these locations create a large plein-air mixed media artwork in-keeping with current studio practice.

2020
Recipient of Fife VACMA award funded by Creative Scotland and Fife Council & administered by Fife Contemporary and Fife Cultural Trust. To add printmaking to artistic output by becoming a member of Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop, attending printmaking course and purchase of tools and materials.

2019 – 2020
Awarded Railway Heritage Trust grant to renovate disused building at Burntisland railway station to become my studio and exhibition space.

One of Edinburgh-based charity Art in Healthcare’s main Artist Facilitators, including running weekly art session as part of their Room for Art outreach programme.

2013 – 2020
Artist Adviser on Art in Healthcare's Art Selection Committee.

2013
Jeremy Mills Publisher published Leo’s second book, Landscapes & Birds of Scotland, an Artist's View. Publication coincided with RGI Kelly Gallery solo exhibition in Glasgow. The 120-page book showcases sketches, paintings and writings from explorations of Scotland, including ongoing Scotland by Rail work. Forewords by Stuart Housden RSPB, Michael Palin, John Busby artist.

2010
Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) Commonwealth Travel Scholarship: 6 weeks crossing Canada by rail, ferry, road. Sketches were published as first book, Sketches from Canada.

Bet Low Trust Award of £1,000 towards RGI Kelly Gallery exhibition.

2008
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) Alexander Graham Munro Travel Award: travelled to Orkney, cementing desire to explore the islands of Scotland.

Scotland By Rail art-travel-nature project launched, supported by ScotRail.

Key Commissions

Wemyss Bay station
Two large triptych paintings for this historic internationally renowned station

Burntisland station, Fife
Ten small outdoor paintings for station Biodiversity Garden

Dalry station, North Ayrshire
Six 4x4ft outdoor paintings for permanent display at award-winning railway station

Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Four 4-metre-high canvases depicting land, sky and space, on permanent display in entrance foyer of UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Blackford Hill

Woolmanhill Hospital, Aberdeen
Large two-piece painting on canvas based on Rattray Head lighthouse and dunes

Additionally, Leo’s works are held in numerous private collections

Archive

November 2024 – January 2025
Artful
Invited Artist
The Park Gallery, Callendar House, Falkirk

November 2024
Three-Person Exhibition
The Life Room, Edinburgh

2017 & 2018 & 2019
Solo Exhibitions
Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh

September 2019
Three-Person Exhibition
The Life Room, Edinburgh

Summer 2018
Solo Exhibition
Isle of May lighthouse, Isle of May

November 2016
Solo Exhibition
The Sutton Gallery, Edinburgh

Spring 2015
Solo Exhibition
Royal Over-Seas League, London

May 2014
In the Outdoors
Two-Person Exhibition
Bon Papillon, Edinburgh

October 2013
Landscapes & Birds of Scotland
Solo Exhibition
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
John D. Kelly Gallery, Glasgow

July – September 2011
Scottish Landscapes by Rail
Solo Exhibition
Royal Over-Seas League, Edinburgh

June – July 2011
Sketches from Canada
Solo Exhibition
The Line Gallery, Linlithgow

April – May 2010
From Woodland to Shore
Solo Exhibition
Inverarity One to One, Edinburgh

July – September 2009
Waters of Scotland
Solo Exhibition
Royal Over-Seas League, Edinburgh

August 2008
Scotland by Rail
Solo Exhibition
150th anniversary of the Aberdeen–Inverness railway
Elgin Museum, Elgin