painting 'Wind at Sandsend' - oil - 103 x 55cms
"Birch has distilled her chosen imagery into a series of well-considered shapes and forms
linked with colour and texture to make a moving visual image."
John Sprakes RBA, ROI - on Lesley Birch, The Artist Magazine Winner 2016
linked with colour and texture to make a moving visual image."
John Sprakes RBA, ROI - on Lesley Birch, The Artist Magazine Winner 2016
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Lesley Birch is a painter and printmaker based in York, UK.
Inspired by wild lands and remote shores, she is interested in a personal response to time and place.
"I'm interested in the expressive, personal mark on the canvas.
I try to create paintings with feeling, sparked off by wild places. I
have an affinity with shorelines and skies, but I'm also moved by the mysterious atmosphere of a forest.
I like a line, a shadow, a brooding sky and a soft wind.
I enjoy the visceral, lush quality of oil paint, the play between texture and softness, transparency and opacity, the build-up of layers
- the fact that certain combinations of colours, certain marks and movements can convey an atmosphere;
that is the joy of painting for me -
the exciting moment when material and emotion meet."
Lesley has shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition, the ING Discerning Eye and is a past winner of The Artist Magazine Prize.
She is a member of Leeds Fine Artists, a founding member of PICA Studios in York and one third of The Cambridge 3 art collective.
Lesley is based in York, UK and works from both her home studio and PICA.
Inspired by wild lands and remote shores, she is interested in a personal response to time and place.
"I'm interested in the expressive, personal mark on the canvas.
I try to create paintings with feeling, sparked off by wild places. I
have an affinity with shorelines and skies, but I'm also moved by the mysterious atmosphere of a forest.
I like a line, a shadow, a brooding sky and a soft wind.
I enjoy the visceral, lush quality of oil paint, the play between texture and softness, transparency and opacity, the build-up of layers
- the fact that certain combinations of colours, certain marks and movements can convey an atmosphere;
that is the joy of painting for me -
the exciting moment when material and emotion meet."
Lesley has shown in the Royal Academy Exhibition, the ING Discerning Eye and is a past winner of The Artist Magazine Prize.
She is a member of Leeds Fine Artists, a founding member of PICA Studios in York and one third of The Cambridge 3 art collective.
Lesley is based in York, UK and works from both her home studio and PICA.
I see, I hear, I feel ... I paint ...
