Leslie Rowland

Leslie understands the source of creation driven by passions of the intellect and soul. Art for Leslie is a form of communication, sometimes visceral and sometimes direct. She creates her own techniques and adds new twists to more traditional approaches gyrating between thumbing her nose at tradition and leaning on it. She has been a professional artist for 20 years with a career first launched in Las Vegas NV, leapfrogging through Austin TX and finally landing in Asheville NC. She has worked in many mediums and on many surfaces ranging from traditional canvas and wood panel to the more unusual, including vintage furniture, WWII artillery shells and car doors. Leslie can’t imagine living her life without creating art; she starts dreaming of art before her eyes are even closed.

Leslie is inspired by exploring new subjects in her work and mixing science with art. Recent subjects include soundwaves, symbiosis in nature, and binary code messages. These porcelain like paintings are created through a time intensive layering and removal process invented by the artist.

In addition to an art-filled life, Leslie has a graduate degree in environmental policy and management and an undergraduate degree in environmental science. Lesl...

I am a self taught artist who has been creating with frantic methodology for 20 years.

Traditional Education:

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies

Master of Environmental Policy and Management

From 2018 - present she has focused on building her private gallery in Asheville North Carolina's River Arts District.

Recent exhibitions include:

2017 exhibitions

"Context Subtext and Pretext- Words in Art and Art in Words” March 2017- Mars Hill University Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill, NC

"Spring Show"- April 2017- Trion Painters and Sculptors Gallery, Trion, NC

"Man and Nature: Pathways to Renewal"- September 2017- Asheville Area Arts Council’s Refinery Gallery, Asheville, NC

"Music Genre Project"- October 2017- Mars Hill University’s Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill, NC

“If These Drawers Could Talk” August/22/05 – October/09/05
A solo exhibit by Leslie Rowland - Rotunda Gallery
Clark County Government Center
Las Vegas, Nevada

“The Naked Lady Show” - by invitation September/02/05 – October/01/05
A Group Show by many of Las Vegas’s premier artists
Studio MTZC
Commerce Street Studios, Las Vegas Nevada

“Leslie Rowland’s Inspired Art Furniture” August/12/05 – August /19/05
A one woman show by Leslie Rowland
Spann and Main Gallery in the Arts Factory
109 East Charleston Blvd., Ste. 101 Las Vegas, NV

“Create Your Dreams Gala” May/07/05
A juried auction to benefit...