Lesley Slight / Oil Paintings

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Featerstone Fine Art

" Lesley Slight paints the Dorset landscape where she lives and works. Her paintings build up a panoramic vision of the country around her home - its hills, fields, sky and woodland. Slight patiently explores the vastness of the surrounding world, discovering many different worlds in a single view - sunrise...liquid mists roll across the fields.. .sunset, and the dark smudges of trees and hedgerows bar the land. The colours are vivid and luxuriant, but the final effect is impressionistic and elusive."

Statement:
"My work is focused on the landscape of West Dorset, where I have lived and worked for the last 33 years in a remote and very rural situation. This landscape, with its secret valleys, old woods and rounded lulls, is the focus and catalyst for everything that I do and is absolutely central to my work. It has an ancient and primordial being, and a timeless quality not quite of this century - so much of it seems relatively untouched by changes evident elsewhere.For me it has ever changeable moods - sometimes welcoming, and at times disturbing and forbidding. It is these very moods which fascinate and intrigue, dependent as they are upon two crucial and interchangeable factors - light and weather. The time of day itself will present a different aspect according to the season, and the weather - rain or sun, mists or brightness, at dawn, dusk, or night - each one is capable of transforming a familiar view into a strange unknown world. It is this mystery that I constantly seek to investigate and explore in my work, and is pivotal to its continuing development."