Spanish photographer Ouka Leele, star of the Movida Madrileña, dies aged 64

Ouka Leele worked in Madrid in the 1980s as the Spanish capital was embracing the early days of the post-Franco reawakening. Photograph: Patricia J Garcinuno/WireImage

The Spanish photographer, artist and poet Ouka Leele, one of the greatest and brightest talents of the Movida Madrileña cultural explosion that followed the end of the Francisco Franco dictatorship, has died at the age of 64.

Born Bárbara Allende Gil de Biedma in Madrid in 1957, Leele began drawing, painting and devouring history of art books at an early age. After studying photography, she alighted on what would become her trademark style – an often riotous fusion of monochrome photographic images overpainted with gaudy watercolours.