Leisl Baker - Familiar Ground

Leisl Baker is a Toowoomba-based contemporary painter celebrated for her expressive landscape and still life artworks. Working primarily in oils, Leisl captures fleeting moments in time as vivid visual snapshots, using a spontaneous, energetic, and intuitive painting style. Her process is both physical and deliberate: she applies thick layers of oil paint to board, then works wet-on-wet to convey the ever-changing light, atmosphere, and energy of a place. Leisl has been recognised nationally as a finalist in many of Australia's most prestigious landscape art prizes, including the Hadley's Prize for Landscape, the Paddington Art Prize (multiple times), the Waverley Art Award, the Pro Hart Outback Art Award, and the Clayton Utz Art Prize. Her work was also featured in the acclaimed Thames and Hudson publication A Painted Landscape (2018) by Amber Creswell Bell, which showcased 50 leading Australian landscape painters.