Dents du Midi 'Twisted' - Mountain Study
Acrylic Painting on Canvas – 40x32” (101x81cm)

Dents du Midi is Stuart Leonard’s abstract tribute to one of his most-loved mountain ranges — a place whose jagged silhouettes and sweeping valleys have appeared in his work time and time again. In this twisted, dreamlike interpretation, the iconic peaks rise like frozen waves, their ridges pulled into elegant, flowing lines that ripple through the entire landscape.

Leonard’s signature linework transforms the mountains into living forms, giving the peaks a sense of movement and rhythm, as though shaped by wind, time, and imagination all at once. Layers of deep blues, soft glacial whites, and swirling contours create a visual tide that feels both immense and intimate — a mountain seen not as rock, but as energy.

This surreal rendering captures the emotional truth of the Dents du Midi: the way they dominate the horizon, the way they shift with light, and the way they seem to breathe with the landscape around them. By distorting and bending the familiar forms, Leonard reveals the mountain’s spirit — the pulse beneath the peaks, the flow beneath the snow, the wild personality that keeps calling him back to paint them again.

Striking, fluid, and deeply personal, Dents du Midi is a celebration of place, memory, and the living shapes hidden within the alpine world. A standout piece for lovers of mountains, abstraction, and art that turns geography into poetry.