We will be open around 11:00 am the next sundays before Christmas for the Holiday Market 11am - 2 pm. Join us for free heat and listen to Arrowhead play from 1 - 3pm while you are browsing the gallery and picking out your favorite paintings!

Light my fire!

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The Joy of Light Stick Match Box Covers. This painting of Essex from Thatchbed Island is now available on a match box. Each box is chocked full of sturdy safety matches, ready to strike! 2.5 x 9 inches. $20.00 a box. Click here for another view.

I just found out I won the Connecticut Historical Gardens
2017 Poster contest for my oil painting of The Florence Griswold House Museum Garden



The Florence Griswold Garden
oil 24 x 24 inches


The last Three Scheduled
Concerts in The Garden of the 2016 season
Stay tuned for the 2017 lineup!



Sunday, October 16th - 4 - 6 pm
The Natters - Face Arts and Friends




Sunday, November 20th - 4 - 6 pm
Hiroya Tsukamoto




Sunday, December 11th - 4 - 6 pm
The Kenn Morr Band



The Thirty Seventh Annual
International Marine Art Exhibition at
The Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport

This painting won the Prestigious Stobart Foundation Award and cash prize for "Painting from Life" for the "virtue of its uniqueness of style, quality of light and atmosphere" and was presented by John Stobart himself! I am honored.



From Hamburg Cove
oil 20 x 52 inches
Leif Nilsson summer 2015 ©



I had the pleasure of performing for a most interested and interesting audience on September 28 of fifteen docents from the Florence Griswold Museum!




In July I painted at the Florence Griswold Museum
for a potential documentary on Garden Painters by Seventh Art Productions.
Here is a short Trailer of the film I am shown painting in
(see my part about 29 seconds in)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=q2fsJmPLcO4

Published on Sep 13, 2016
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN Season 4 Announced!

Discover the thrilling stories and timeless art of Hieronymus Bosch, Claude Monet, the American Impressionists and Michelangelo at a cinema near you. Find out more at www.exhibitiononscreen.com

Here is the painting I was making at the museum:



The Florence Griswold Garden
oil 24 x 24 inches

Here is the painting I was begining for the docents:



Studio Garden
oil 24 x 24 inches

Arrowhead strings the bow again!



photo by Kelly Fryer

Stop by for a few tunes on the front porch
or inside the Gallery
most Sundays from 1 - 3ish pm.

Saturday, September 3rd 8 - 11 pm
The Stand BBQ, Breakfast and Farm Stand
196 S Montowese St
Branford, CT 06405
(203) 433-4728

Saturday, September 10th 10am - noon
Lyme Farmers Market at Ashlawn Fram
http://www.thelymefarmersmarket.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lyme-Farmers-Market-791579747529868/
78 Bill Hill Rd
Lyme, CT

My friend Michael Sundberg just shared his latest video of the Arrowhead String Band live in the garden.
Check it out on his channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhDs2ZBwKxk

I am honored to have won "The Barnes Cash Award"
for this painting at the Essex Art Association Juried show on August 26th 2016.



Barn Garden
oil 40 x 40 inches
Leif Nilsson spring 2015 ©


The last Thursday Night
Concert in The Garden of the 2016 season
August 25th - 7 - 9 pm



Jen Low and the Firefly Band

We move to Sundays from 4 - 6 pm in October:

Sunday, October 16th - 4 - 6 pm
The Natters and Friends

Sunday, November 20th - 4 - 6 pm
Hiroya Tsukamoto

Sunday, December 11th - 4 - 6 pm
The Kenn Morr Band


I was invited to paint at the Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island
on August 24, 2016 for the Mallet Club Croquet Tournament.
A very Zen sport.

Painting at the Ocean House




The Mallet Club at the Ocean House
oil 9.75 x 12.75 inches




The afternoon painting.

SPECIAL FRIDAY NIGHT
Concert in The Garden
August 19th - 7 - 9 pm



Michelle Walker and Opius Bliss


Concert in The Garden
Thursday, August 11th - 7 - 9 pm



The Grays

August 1st - 5th, I conducted a week long Painting Workshop,
please click for more information.

ESSEX ART ASSOCIATION
I am honored to have won "Best in Oil"
at the show opening Friday July 29, 2016 from 6 - 8 pm.

Studio Garden
oil 40 x 36 inches
Leif Nilsson summer 2015 ©


Concert in The Garden
Thursday, July 28th - 7 - 9 pm



Arrowhead String Band

New Lonon, CT, July 1st - 30th -
I am exhibiting nine paintings in a Six Person show at the Hygienic Galleries.
Color & Light; Featuring the work of Mark Patnode, Gigi Liverant, Michael Peery, Leif Nilsson and Dennis Sirrine.

One of my nine paintings in the show:



The Sun Room
oil 40 x 54 inches
Leif Nilsson winter 2009 ©

I was invited to conduct an ARTIST TALK: Thursday, July 20th at 6 pm
Hygienic Galleries, 79 Bank Street New London, CT 06320
It was a wonderful evening full of insights. The show ends on Saturday, July 30.

Concert in The Garden
Thursday, July 14th - 7 - 9 pm



The Bianco Martinis

In July I painted at the Florence Griswold Museum
for a potential documentary on Garden Painters by Seventh Art Productions.

Photo by Caryn B. Davis


SPECIAL FRIDAY NIGHT Concert in The Garden
July 8th - 7 - 9 pm



Plywood Cowboy


Concert in The Garden
Thursday, June 30th - 7 - 9 pm



DB Rieley


June 25, 7-10pm - Arrowhead String Band is LIVE at The Copper Beech Inn!


June 17, 5 - 7 pm - The Lyme Art Association
opened its American Waters Show. I won a prize!



Essex From South Cove
oil 12 x 48 inches
Leif Nilsson summer 2014 ©
"Second Place" Cash Prize Winner at the
Lyme Art Association Maritime Exhibit, June 2016


Concert in The Garden
Thursday, June 16th - 7 - 9 pm



Eric Fresia


June 14 - 18 - I was painting on location at the 20th Annual Plein Air Painters of the Mystic Maritime Gallery.



Spouters Tavern at Mystic Seaport
oil 4 x 9 inches
Leif Nilsson spring 2016 ©
Sold
at the opening reception for the fresh paintings on June 18th from 6 - 7:30 pm.


Concert in The Garden
Thursday, May 12th - 7 - 9 pm



Kerri Powers with Eric Lichter


Friday, May 6th from 5 - 8 pm
The Annual Chester May Daze Night
I'll be showing my latest work from England.



Chewstoke, England - Springtime
gouache 7 x 11 inches
Leif Nilsson spring 2016 ©

Painting in Mousehole, Cornwall, UK
We just returned from a fortnight in Britain.
Visit the studio to check out the recent gouaches.


Thursday, May 5th at 7 p.m
I'll be performing with the Guilford Ramblers at the Guilford Free Library


Sunday, May 1st 5-7pm at
The Pattaconk 1850
Arrowhead strings the bow again!


Concert in The Garden
Sunday, April 17, 2016 4 - 6 pm



The Meadows Brothers


Concert in The Garden
Sunday, March 20th - 4 - 6 pm



Donna Martin


Concert in The Garden
Sunday, February 21st - 4 - 6 pm



Kristen Graves


Early February 2016
Painting on The Poets Lounge in St John, USVI.



St Johns USVI Christmas Cove
gouache 7 x 11 inches
Leif Nilsson winter 2016 ©


Arrowhead strings the bow again!
1/24/2016 from 5 - 8 pm.
Join us at The Bee and Thistle Inn Happy Hour Show
100 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT

Be sure to ask about the New Bar Menu!

Concert in The Garden
Sunday, January 17th - 4 - 6 pm



Ramblin’ Dan Stevens with Clayton Allen