Leigh Cockburn

Leigh Cockburn was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1942. He is a graduate of Hamilton Teachers' College and McMaster University. In December 1996 he retired from teaching after thirty-five years. His last thirty were spent with the Hamilton Board of Education. His initial one-man show was at the Alice Peck Gallery in Burlington in 1970. Since then he has had many other one-man shows plus contributed to group shows. His work is represented in the Dofasco Collection, the Royal Botanical Gardens, plus many other businesses in Southern Ontario. He has contributed to the loan collections of the Hamilton Art Gallery, the Burlington Cultural Centre, and the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown, P.E. I. He presently runs "Just A Wee Gallery" out of his home in North Burlington.