Background
Inspiration
Background
Leslie Lyon (b. 1960) is a professional artist with a 40-year active studio practice and over 20 years of experience instructing college-level art courses. She holds an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She has also accomplished arts management initiatives spanning nonprofits, gallery curation, art school direction, and more. Le
Leslie Lyon (b. 1960) is a professional artist with a 40-year active studio practice and over 20 years of experience instructing college-level art courses. She holds an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She has also accomplished arts management initiatives spanning nonprofits, gallery curation, art school direction, and more. Leslie's interests include global travel, women in art, and instruction of contemporary art issues and criticism.
Medium
Inspiration
Background
Limited list of media:
- Oils
- Acrylic
- Watercolor
- Installation
- Outdoor public works
- Digital, including Adobe suite
- Large scale charcoal drawings
Inspiration
Inspiration
Inspiration
Leslie's work examines the architecture of form, the body, and the natural world. As a student, Leslie used anatomy books as source material for vivid nonobjective works suggesting landscapes, mysterious still life objects, and at times full abstracts. Leslie's most recent works represent a natural transition from anatomy studies to pai
Leslie's work examines the architecture of form, the body, and the natural world. As a student, Leslie used anatomy books as source material for vivid nonobjective works suggesting landscapes, mysterious still life objects, and at times full abstracts. Leslie's most recent works represent a natural transition from anatomy studies to paintings of shells and fish bones found while beach combing near her home in Charleston, SC.
Her latest series explores the architecture of the ocean and consists of both small- and large-scale beach finds that, at times, take on anthropomorphic qualities.