Leo Hernandez was born in Cuba in 1945. He left Cuba in 1961 and eventually arrived in Manhattan where he attended the School of Visual Arts and the Frank Reilly School of Art. He became a textile artist for M. Lowenstein Co. in the art and photographic department. In New York he met and married his wife, but his yearning for the tropical sun of his childhood brought him to his permanent Miami home in 1974. Here he attended Miami Dade College for horticulture and design. Leo retired from the position of landscape director for Brickell Key I on Brickell Key Island in downtown Miami.
Leo joined the Tropical Botanic Artists collective after taking illustration classes at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Using pencil and watercolor, his work springs to life with just enough detail to make refreshing, vividly real imagery. When not painting, he enjoys fishing, snorkeling, diving, butterfly gardening, and photography with his two daughters.
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Black Eyed Susan
Watercolor, graphite and colored pencil on paper
20 x 16 in
Giant Sphinx with Ghost Orchid
Watercolor, graphite and colored pencil on paper
20 x 16 in
Purple Thistle and Black Swallowtail
Watercolor, graphite and colored pencil on paper
20 x 16 in
Palamedes Swallowtail on Buttonbush
Watercolor over graphite on paper
18 x 24 in
Tillandsia flexuosa with Anole
Mixed media on paper
20 x 16 in