Ron Leach was born in the Midwest. He attended Carnegie Mellon University and began a career as an illustrator. In 1998 with the help of Urs Jakob and the Gershwin Hotel (now called the Evelyn), Ron made a switch to large scale pastel drawings, concentrating on the figure and how to see the world in a multi-faceted sense. He was inspired by artists such as Kitaj, Bacon, Freud, and Max Beckmann.  In 2005 at the insistence of a competition with the national Portrait Gallery, Ron made the switch to painting, concentrating on portrait, mythology, self-portrait, and animals. Ron has painted and shown at various venues across the United States,  including Dacia where he is proud to present a cross section of newer works this upcoming September.

My art is informed by the world around me and those humorous pockets of reality that I see. When I see juxtapositions in space (as we artists do have such a deep, introspective look at our surroundings), I tend to key in on how that person or object or animal would look on a two-dimensional surface. The dichotomy between my former commercial self and current fine art self helps me understand color, compliment, composition, and context. The vehicles that these paintings inhabit are allegorical, self-portrait, figurative and historical. Making art is synonymous with classical music; wherein the artist is the conductor, the baton the brush, the players the paint, and the music the painting.