Commissions

Leon Vitale

Behind the Artwork

Transporting architectural-scale paintings presents unique challenges. Rather than dividing a finished painting into conventional rectangular panels, each artwork is conceived from the beginning as a series of engineered sections.

My paintings are composed of clearly defined geometric and organic forms. The sectional layout follows the natural boundaries of these forms rather than a conventional rectangular grid. As a result, the painting retains the visual integrity of a single continuous artwork while becoming practical to transport and install.

Each section is designed to remain within approximately 1.2 × 1.2 metres, allowing multiple sections to be packed efficiently into a 1.3 × 1.3 metre crate. This significantly simplifies shipping, handling, elevator access, and on-site installation compared with transporting a single oversized canvas.

Artist Statement

My artistic work is the continuation of architectural thinking placed in the realm of painting. As an architect, I learned to understand the built environment through proportion, hierarchy, rhythm, space, and material. Those principles continue to shape the way I see the world. This is where painting departs from architecture. A composition within the canvas exists inside a fixed, self-contained perimeter — closed to the environment around it, governed only by its own internal logic. Architecture, by contrast, cannot be separated from its site; it is shaped by, and answers to, the conditions surrounding it. Painting becomes the space in which those principles can exist, freed from the constraints of context, gravity, and place. The paintings do not depict specific places; they are distilled from years spent observing architecture, cities, and interiors, resurfacing not as recognizable images but as essential forms, colours, and spatial relationships.