STORIES OF LAND & EARTH
2015-2017
"A sense of place is embedded in memory, connected to the people we knew and loved. Dad had a boat on Loch Lomond in the 1980s. He renovated 'Ladybird' in a huge warehouse on Inchmurrin Island. Some of these paintings allude to this little boat as a metaphor for a life resurfacing through the painting. Family time was spent in Carradale, Ardentinny, Carnoustie and St Andrews. These paintings relive those experiences and memories. They are not all literal interpretations, often moving into abstraction as the moment takes me." Lesley Birch
Click on each painting for more details. A collection of paintings is available from CARINA HASLAM FINE ART GALLERY.
Click on each painting for more details. A collection of paintings is available from CARINA HASLAM FINE ART GALLERY.
"In this ongoing series I combine abstraction of the landscape with figuration and symbols to present a narrative element to my painting. These are personal moments of my history to time and place. A sense of timelessness is something I'm after in the atmosphere of each painting, whether it be the suggestion of a human form, a soft, sweeping, mistlike mark or the cutting line of sharp rock."
Lesley Birch, 2018
"Follower"
from this series was selected and sold
on the opening night of
The Ing Discerning Eye Exhibition
November 2017
Mall Galleries
London
"something is lost, something is found"
Chrissie Hynde, 'Hymn to Her'
