Lesley Finlayson: filter/ed
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Elissa Cristall Gallery 1820 Unit 200 (second floor) Fir Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3B1
photo: Lesley Finlayson
Lesley Finlayson, "filter/ed #1", 2019, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48"
In the tradition of the Impressionists and Canada's Group of Seven, Lesley Finlayson paints the landscape en plein air. Her highly gestural paintings focus on the light filtering through the landscape on the west coast of British Columbia.
Spontaneous and mastered brush strokes mimic a slight wind, the changes in hue, shadows and the perceived spaces that nature orchestrates. The matrix of this complicated visual phenomenon provides Finlayson with a structure to explore the formal properties of paint, thin/thick, texture/flat, opaque/ transparent and colour.
Lesley Finlayson received a BFA with honours from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA from the University of Calgary. She is the former Department Chair, Fine Arts at Langara College in Vancouver and now works full time in her studio in Victoria, BC. Her work is in numerous private and corporate collections in North America and abroad.
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