Lesley Seeger

We are Delighted to be showcasing York based artist Lesley Seeger’s work in the gallery for the very first time this spring.

Lesley originally studied an Art foundation at York College of art and then went on to do a BA Honours in English and Media  and postgraduate training in Art Therapy. She worked for many years in the community Arts including mental and physical health and was Artist in Residence in the Renal Unit of York Hospital for six years

She then went back into painting later on in life and a lot of the techniques she uses throughout her current body of work are self taught.

Her response to landscape is both emotional and spiritual. At a time when nature is under threat and engagement with the earth is eclipsed by a contemporary obsession with technology, she seek’s to record the fields, trees and furrows while we still have them. Current work is concerned with the landscape of the British Isles but my palette is sometimes still influenced by previous travels to India, Sri Lanka and Morocco.

Painting outside in the landscape and completing work in the studio, she sketch’s directly onto the board, capturing the immediacy of moment and place. The many layers of each painting contain the painterly journey from chaos and destruction to order and balance, mirroring the cycle of death and rebirth in the natural world and the evolution of human consciousness.”