Paul Leli’s from Toronto, Canada. His art fuses super realism and street art with sharp eye for hip hop culture. Leli paints in oils, acrylics, gouache, aerosol, mixed media.

Leli’s Influences flow from comic book culture, renaissance art and graffiti from realism to abstraction.
These opposing elements act as a buffer between the culturally appealing and artistically ambitious.

Leli’s focus is to portray the human form realistically, in order to describe life as it really is; that is to understand it rationally, while expressing subjective reality in it’s context through abstract expressive means. Using traditional techniques to render perspective and light more naturally. To that end, the classically trained painter is always developing new techniques, integrating street art.