Hall's Harbour artist has natural eye for art
An eye for nature: Fabienne Leydecker’s work is on display at CentreStage. Submitted
Published on March 9, 2011
Fabienne Leydecker of Hall’s Harbour is the artist featured during the run of Dial “M” for Murder, on at CentreStage Theatre in Kentville until April 9.
Fabienne Leydecker was born in the little town of Bayonne, in the Pays Basque region of France. At an early age, she became fascinated with nature and began drawing wildlife. At 14, she attended college in Chantilly for equine studies. Not surprisingly, her love of horses and art continue to intertwine. She became the first female jockey in France and later moved to Canada to ride racehorses and develop her art.
"My passion for art eventually became too hard to resist, and I pursued a full-time career as an artist," she says.
Fabienne Leydecker considers herself fortunate to have painted with Derek Wicks, a well-known wildlife artist; Moe Shier, a realist animal painter; and Rosemarie Armstrong, an Ontario rural scenic artist. Her current work is mainly abstract paintings.
"I love when my paintings show not only the beauty of the colours and light but also energies.”
In 2009, she and her husband, along with their four dogs, moved to Nova Scotia, where she finds inspiration in the countryside. They have just relocated their Copper Fox Gallery to Hall’s Harbour. The gallery will be open to the public in early summer.
Fabienne Leydecker is a member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council, and the Alliance of Kings Artists.
