Lex Leclerc

I am a watercolorist working out of Buffalo, NY. I studied art at Hobart and William Smith College, but do not have a formal art degree. I consider myself a beginner, although I have been making various forms of art for a long time.

I am most interested in the intersection of visual and written story. I like to paint characters who respond to one another through their body language and the choices of color. Watercolor holds a certain magic to it when I drop a bit of color onto the page and an explosion happens. I love the texture that a droplet of inky water brings. Traditionally, watercolor is a medium where you are supposed to work light from dark, but I often overlay lights over darks to see the effect.

BA (writing, art history and aesthetics) Hobart and William Smith College. I studied with Nick Ruth.
MA (education) Canisius College
MFA (fiction) New England College

I was the featured artist in Smirk Magazine for their fall of 2018 issue.