Pillow Face 2 - Mountain Study
Acrylic Painting on Canvas – 19.5x39.5” (50x100cm)

Pillow Face 2 is another surreal exploration of how mountains hold personality, presence, and spirit within their forms. Stuart Leonard transforms flowing snow pillows, ridgelines, and wind-shaped contours into the suggestion of a human face — ancient, calm, and quietly watching over the winter landscape. Bold black linework carves through soft pastel blues and purples, creating a mesmerising contrast that feels both graphic and ethereal.

The piece invites viewers to see the slopes differently: to recognise how nature, when abstracted just slightly, reveals expressions, moods, and living shapes hidden in its curves. The result is a mountain face that almost breathes, its features rising organically from snow drifts and shadowed layers like a guardian etched into the terrain.

Beautifully fluid, hypnotic, and full of quiet mystery, Pillow Face 2 celebrates the imagination that outdoor wanderers know well — the way a ridgeline can suddenly become a profile, a couloir an eyelid, or a wind-blown pillow the slope of a cheek. It’s a stunning statement piece for lovers of surrealism, mountainscapes, and expressive line art.