LESLEY GILES                                                                      

“I paint bold, colorful images from my favorite solitary places on the Eastern Shore & beyond. I formalize the space with a hint of abstraction”

Lesley was honored to receive an Independent Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2021. She was the only artist from Dorchester County to be recognized. Lesley was selected by Jack Rasmussen, Director of the American University Museum, to exhibit in “Select Maryland State Arts Council Award Winners” at D/E International Art Gallery, Baltimore Airport.

Also, Lesley had three paintings selected for the new Cambridge Health Center.

“... the boldness of her colour is matched by a strength of design that is all too rare in contemporary art. Here is an artist with a down-to-earth sureness of vision that is immensely beguiling”  by Andrew Lambirth, Art Historian, London

Lesley is a professional artist from London, a graduate of the Royal College of Art (MFA, Painting). She has exhibited her paintings in numerous exhibitions throughout the UK, Europe, China and the USA. Her work has been published in several books & magazines. She moved to Cambridge in 2012.

Recent exhibitions include the Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Annmarie Art Center, Solomon’s Island, McLean Project for the Arts, Virginia, Trippe Gallery, Easton, Dorchester Center for the Arts, Cambridge, Kyo Gallery, Old Town Alexandria, the Hill Center, Washington DC, Maryland Hall, Annapolis, The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, De, Art Takes Times Square, NYC. and Urumqi Xinjiang, on the Silk Road.

While you are in Cambridge visit Blackwater Bakery to see the five-foot coffee cup the owner commissioned Lesley to paint in 2018!

A full CV is available on Lesley’s website www.lesleygilesart.com © Lesley Giles 2019