.Lucinda Leveille is a contemporary Australian landscape painter whose work bridges tradition and modernity. Working in both watercolour and oil, she explores the quiet endurance of the landscape — its solitude, resilience and stillness amid storms. Her paintings hold space for reflection, where colour becomes emotion and light carries memory.
In 2025 Lucinda was named one of Bluethumb’s Top 50 Artists, following her representation of the platform at the inaugural Affordable Art Fair Brisbane. Recognition like this reflects the growing regard for her work and the distinct perspective she brings to contemporary Australian painting.
Lucinda works in series, each exploring a facet of human and environmental experience. The Road reflects on the journeys we all take, both literal and internal. Exploring the Solitary turns inward, capturing the stillness and isolation that form part of the human condition. Songs of the Sea honours her love of the coast and the fragile balance between land, sea and sky. In Above the Canopy, she looks upward through the familiar branches outside her studio to paint the vast Australian sky. Her latest body of work, The Music of the Night, moves into nocturnal territory — shifting clouds, quiet stars, and the subtle drama of darkness.
Across these series, Lucinda’s horizon lines act as anchors — thresholds between what is seen and felt, earth and air, motion and pause. Her unconventional use of colour transforms ordinary scenes into meditations on time, endurance and belonging. Moments of calm in her work are edged with quiet tension, suggesting both the strength and vulnerability of the natural world.
For Lucinda, painting is storytelling in its most personal form. Each piece carries traces of her environment, her memories, and the landscapes she inhabits both physically and emotionally. Her watercolours are playful and luminous, while her oils delve deeper — asking what it means to stand still in a changing world.
“When I’m painting a landscape,” she says, “I feel as though I’m really there — walking the road, standing in the grasses, or standing still in the storm. I live inside the world I’m painting.”
Committed to originality, Lucinda never produces prints of her paintings. Every work is one-of-a-kind, an unrepeatable moment of connection between artist, place and viewer.
Her art has appeared in both solo and group exhibitions across the Gold Coast and Melbourne, and her paintings reside in collections around the world — from England and America to Parliament House Canberra, The Treasury, and public spaces including the Gold Coast Council Library and Gold Coast Marine Rescue. Her work has also been featured in Netflix’s True Spirit, Channel 7’s Dream Home, and Selling Houses Australia.
Through all this, Lucinda’s focus remains steady: to create paintings that tell quiet, enduring stories — reminding us of our place within the vast, fragile beauty of the natural world.