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Red Cloud Confrontation in the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park on the Kaipara Harbour. Being known by the public for his outlandish but highly geometric sculptures, Leon’s paintings are also widely held in private collections. When Covid stopped the plans in their tracks to organise a 2020 retrospective of his life’s work and development as an artist, a new date was set for 24 April 2021. The exhibition opening would be a stylish, colourful and integral part of the start of Dutch Week, at the Big Dutch Day Out in Foxton. The opening of “A Colourful Nation – Kleur Bekennen” went ahead, but ....
Red Cloud Confrontation in the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park on the Kaipara Harbour. Being known by the public for his outlandish but highly geometric sculptures, Leon’s paintings are also widely held in private collections. When Covid stopped the plans in their tracks to organise a 2020 retrospective of his life’s work and development as an artist, a new date was set for 24 April 2021. The exhibition opening would be a stylish, colourful and integral part of the start of Dutch Week, at the Big Dutch Day Out in Foxton. The opening of “A Colourful Nation – Kleur Bekennen” went ahead, but without Leon there in person. He had died 10 days earlier, after a heart attack. ....
Notable works included the The Smiling Windmills at Avalon Park in Lower Hutt, and T he Geometric Totem Pole at the Brick Bay Sculpture Trail in Auckland. Van der Boon said the exhibition showed the progression of a disciplined Dutch way of working to absorbing New Zealand culture and loosening up to take influence from the landscape. “The two parts of him influenced each other.” Van den Eijkel was born in The Netherlands in 1940 and studied at The Hague Royal Academy of Art from 1958 to 1963. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1986. He was known for his use of bright colours, and came up with the concept for a new colour palette by watching the sunset in Wellington and recreating the colours in a book. ....