“Connection”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 32.5” x 47”, 2023
Front Cover: “Connection” detail view
“Skyward”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 38.5” x 28”, 2023
“Ice Branch”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 37” x 27”, 2023
“Window Series 01”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 48” x 41”, 2023
“Window
Series 02”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 39” x 30”, 2023
“Window
Series 04”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 27” x 36”, 2023
“Window
Series 03”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 19” x 62”, 2023
Lesley Richmond
Lesley Richmond photographs trees, focusing on the intricacy of their branching structures and then prints these images on cloth, using a medium that creates a dimensional surface. She then eliminates selected background areas, leaving the structural images of trees as the dominant feature. The images are then painted with metal patinas and pigments.
Richmond was born in Cornwall, England. Lesley now lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She received her art teachers training in London, England and her MEd in the USA. She taught in the textile arts program at Capilano University, Vancouver, Canada to 2003 while continuing her practice as a studio artist. Lesley now works full time in her studio. Lesley’s work is in collections in the USA, Japan, Poland, Korea and Canada, including but not limited to: Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, Baltimore Museum of Art, and The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
Education
1990 Masters of Education Degree - Western Washington University, USA
1983 Trent Park College, London, England
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Venice Art Biennial, organized by the European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy
2021 Venice Architecture Biennial, organized by the European Cultural Centre, Venice, Italy
2020 Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, MO
2019 SOFA Chicago, Duane Reed Gallery
Art Market Hamptons, Duane Reed Gallery
2018 Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Manhatten, NY
Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2017 Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2016 Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
SOFA Chicago, Tansey Contemporary
LA Art Show, Tansey Contemporary
2015 SOFA Chicago, Tansey Contemporary
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2014 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, USA
Art Palm Beach, Tansey Contemporary
2012 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Korean Craft Museum, Korea
Selected Collections
Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, USA
Art in Embassies, Dept. of State, Libreville, Gabon
Peabody Energy, St. Louis, MO, USA
Royal Caribbean International Corporate Collection, Eclipse Cruise Ship
The Kamm Teapot Collection, Sparta, North Carolina, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cheongju International Craft Biennale, Korea
Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland
Museum of International Folk Art
Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Canada
Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Aichi Gakusen College, Nagoya, Japan
Back Cover: “Dreamwalk”, printed and painted fabric, expanding ink, 41” x 32”, 2023
