Leon Roulette, as a child, always had a love for the great outdoors and became interested in painting at a very early age. These two elements combined to give rise to the extraordinary and vibrant artist that he is today. His work is reminiscent of the romantic landscape painters of the 18th and 19th Century.

Leon attains mystic intimacy with the subjects of his paintings, whether it be a remote windswept mountain range in Alaska, the picturesque Spanish Missions of California, a panorama of the French or Italian Riviera, or the baroque and roccoco style architecture of Venice. Roulette's translation of these vistas onto canvas gives the viewer a visual feast of the beauty and the wonder that is Nature. Born December 11, 1959, and raised in Southern California, Leon began studying art as a child through private instruction and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in fine art at California State University of Long Beach. His studies included historical and classical fine art as well as the theory of architecture and design. Early in his career he spent a number of years as an art instructor in Southern California.
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Leon Roulette was born in 1959, and grew up in southern California. Even when he was a child, he had both a great love of the outdoors and a deep interest in painting.

He received private art instruction at an early age, and eventually graduated California State University of Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts.

He studied both classical art as well as theories of architecture and design. After graduating college, he soon became an art instructor in southern California.

In the 1980's, he became the art director for a prominent art studio, designing and creating serigraphs for Universal Studios, Warner Brothers and Walt Disney Studios.

Today, Roulette primarily works in the great outdoors (Plein Air), capturing nature's beauty with spontaneity, bold strokes of color and thick applications of paint. His landscapes best express his interest in nature's play of sunlight on objects.

Today, Roulette is a member of the Plein Air Painters of the Northwest where artists are inspired by such greats as 17th century Dutch painter Jacob van Ruysdael and of course, the master of sunlight's reflection on nature, Claude Monet.
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