Leo is a Vietnam veteran with a Service Connected disability, Secondary Progressive (Multiple Sclerosis) and PTSD. As a self-taught 77 year old artist, is work is both a passion and a profound source of personal fulfillment. Due to his slow but steady physical and cognitive impairments his art is spontaneous and intuitive, yielding uniquely imaginative explorations of color, composition, and line. Viewers will easily establish a tapestry of his psyche. The acrylic materials used in Leo's work have become tools for his ventures into visual abstraction. It is his main desire to provide maximum aesthetic pleasure for his audience and to touch the soul with human emotions. It’s a delicate balance between order and chaos, intention and intuition.

Leo's disability as a result of my Multiple Sclerosis and PTSD has resulted in his sometimes inability to duplicate a particular artistic methodology developed by him in past work. Therefore, each work is an island of itself. Leo's work has a soul with his efforts to put them down an absolute, visual experience. He creates colorful powerfully engaging, abstract works that suggest a kind of kaleidoscopic stream of consciousness. The overall effect is of layered immediacies-quick moments of insight emerging from perhaps an even more variant, yet firm, intuition about color, gesture, and juxtaposition of form. If art is the stored honey of the human soul then his abstractions will give you the opportunity to share the passion of his work and share his emotional lock-in and disability. Leo continues to live in the moment in his domestic oasis.