"Sketchbooking is integral to my practice"  Lesley Birch

Corris, North Wales - a sketchbook

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Cornwall - Sketchbook
May 2015

Italy - An Artist's Sketchbook
August 2015

Lucca, Pistoia, Firenze, Gombereto, Drezzo, Como - wee snippets from my sketchbook - time spent with family and artistic study time.
Pages shown here are a personal artistic record of mark-making, notes, observations and rough thoughts.  

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Ireland - An Artist's Sketchbook
October - November 2014 - Lesley Birch

Based at Ballinglen Arts Foundation out in the wilds of County Mayo, Ireland, I've been on an artistic voyage exploring new techniques with artist Rebecca Crowell, discovering ancient landscapes and making new friends.  Pages from this sketchbook are a personal artistic record of mark-making, notes, observations and rough thoughts.   Solo exhibition "Atmosphere & Emotion" - An Irish Journey - in the summer of 2015 in Kunsthuis Gallery, York.

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Staithes - An Artist's Sketchbook
September 2014 - Lesley Birch

Making a sketchbook inbetween making paintings on the beach at Staithes, North Yorkshire.  The sketchbook process is simply a place to lay down ideas, thoughts and play whilst the paintings 'happen' on the side.

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St Ives - An Artist's Sketchbook
July 2014

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