Listening to the Object

With these pieces, Lesley has intuitively created by recognizing her work’s evolution and style, guiding her towards the next step, pattern, color, or area. As a result, these pieces lack a conventional order, but make sense according to their own rules.

Upholstered Chair

Echoes in tonality and color emerge in a combination of loud and quiet rectangles of fabric on the seat of this chair

Pattern Quilt

Building from sites of great activity, Lesley reacted to centers of bright colors and patterns and allowed the piece to move into space with different, more calming, sensations

Mesas

With a new technique of acrylic pouring, Lesley’s experiment forced her to react to, rather than control, the process of creating these tables