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Leach studied at the Ontario College of Art, 1969 She has participated in group and solo exhibitions, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, and the Edmonton Art Gallery. Gordon Hatt, director at the time of the Cambridge Galleries, organized a major exhibition of her work, which traveled nationally to public galleries including the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough. Leach also had two major paintings selected by the curators for the 2005, important international exhibition, Extreme Abstraction, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Her work is included in many private and public collections including the Art gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Hart House, University of Toronto and the Donovan Collection, University of Toronto.

In her work Leach has explored colour within the confines of the basic grid. Experimenting with the configuration of line particular to a composition, vertical and horizontal sections of the painting are designated light or dark value in an attempt to shift the perception of depth. While the result is barely perceptible in the vertical application it becomes a major design element in the horizontal format.

In a press release for a 2008 exhibition at WTG, Leach states about her work;

“The implementation of conditions, brought forth through grid design, chosen colour group and order, is essential to the aesthetic quality of the painting.  The act of painting serves to fulfill the terms of planning; a function that is purely mechanical, thus forming the aesthetic for the Abstract Repeat series of paintings.”

In the essay on Leach’s work for the travelling public gallery exhibition, Shimmy, curated by Gordon Hatt, he states: “—Leach’s paintings are a brilliant amalgamation of her studies in weaving, textile design and painting.—” Leach is included in the major book by Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada. Nasgaard wrote the following in Chapter 15, At the Turn of The Millennium;

“Her small abstract paintings dazzlingly juxtapose stripes of patterns of colour, closely packed and often sporting themselves in distorted, undulating waves that dizzyingly flow in and out of pictorial space, performing spatial swoops –”

Exhibitions from 2002-2012: on the archived WTG site.