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Red Cloud Confrontation in the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park on the Kaipara Harbour. Being known by the public for his outlandish but highly geometric sculptures, Leon’s paintings are also widely held in private collections. When Covid stopped the plans in their tracks to organise a 2020 retrospective of his life’s work and development as an artist, a new date was set for 24 April 2021. The exhibition opening would be a stylish, colourful and integral part of the start of Dutch Week, at the Big...

Red Cloud Confrontation in the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park on the Kaipara Harbour. Being known by the public for his outlandish but highly geometric sculptures, Leon’s paintings are also widely held in private collections. When Covid stopped the plans in their tracks to organise a 2020 retrospective of his life’s work and development as an artist, a new date was set for 24 April 2021. The exhibition opening would be a stylish, colourful and integral part of the start of Dutch Week, at the Big...

Notable works included the The Smiling Windmills at Avalon Park in Lower Hutt, and T he Geometric Totem Pole at the Brick Bay Sculpture Trail in Auckland. Van der Boon said the exhibition showed the progression of a disciplined Dutch way of working to absorbing New Zealand culture and loosening up to take influence from the landscape. “The two parts of him influenced each other.” Van den Eijkel was born in The Netherlands in 1940 and studied at The Hague Royal Academy of Art from 195...