Lesley Giles

Lesley is an English artist currently based near Washington D.C. on the Eastern Shore. After graduating from the RCA she lived & painted in London for many years where she exhibited extensively. She moved to Florida with her American husband in 2003 where she was "blown away" by the color & the heat! She re-visited Hockney's California paintings. In 2012 Lesley moved north to Maryland where she discovered a marshy, isolated landscape that resembles Dungeness, Kent, one of her early inspirations "where the wild blue delphiniums grow along the edge of the nuclear power plant".
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Lesley paints listening to the BBC radio streaming online. Her work is collected extensively & can be found in Australia, China & Europe as well as the UK & USA.
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“Lesley Giles blurs the line between traditional notions of landscape and graphic arts. Giles’s exaggerated colors and stylized patterns, as seen in her striped skies, separate her from earlier artists” Ryan Grover, Curator, Biggs Museum of American Art, Delaware, May 2014.

Royal College of Art, London
MFA 1980
Goldsmiths College, London
BFA 1972

SELECTED:
District Arts - Frederick, Maryland
Trippe Gallery - Easton, Maryland
Gallery Clarendon - Clarendon, Washington
Kyo Gallery - Old Town, Washington
Trestle Gallery - Brooklyn, New York
Bishop Stock Gallery - Snow Hill, Maryland
Hill Center for the Arts - Washington DC
Maryland Hall - Annapolis, Maryland
Out of the Fire - Easton, Md
Museum of American Art - Dover, Delaware
Main Street Gallery - Cambridge, Md
Carroll Art Center - Westminster, Maryland
Annmarie Art Center - Soloman's Island, Maryland
Creative, See Me Gallery - New York
Maryland Federation of Art - Annapolis, Maryland
Joie de Vivre Gallery - Cambridge, Maryland
Jackson Gallery - Portland, Dorset, UK
Art Takes Times Square - New York
Artists React to the Gulf oil Spill, Kansas
Climate Gallery - New York
Enid Lawson Gallery - London
Butterfield Garage Art Gallery - St Augustine, Florida
ARC Gallery - Chicago
Metro Gallery - Orlando, Florida
Katharine Butler Gallery - Sarasota, Florida
Modern Artists Gallery - Pangbourne, UK
Ashcroft Modern Art - Cirencester, UK
Hickory Museum of Art - Charlotte, NC
LoPressionism Gallery - Melbourne, Florida
Art Basel-Miami Beach, Postcards
Lemon Street Gallery - Truro, Cornwall, UK
Gallery 402 - New York
Ormond Art Museum - Flo...