After graduating from the Royal College of Art, English artist Lesley Giles lived and worked in London where she exhibited extensively. She was represented by Enid Lawson Gallery. In 2003 Lesley moved to the USA with her American husband.
Lesley's work has a contemporary style that is figurative and post-cubist with influences from Edward Hopper and David Hockney.
Her brightly coloured ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES are EDGY & formalised as she tries to express
the strange beauty of the world around us.
Lesley's work has a contemporary style that is figurative and post-cubist with influences from Edward Hopper and David Hockney.
Her brightly coloured ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPES are EDGY & formalised as she tries to express
the strange beauty of the world around us.
Lesley's paintings can be found in private and museum collections all over the world. Her work has been published by Harper Collins & has appeared in several magazines like Fine Art Connoisseur magazine, New York & Artist & illustrator magazine, London.
FINE ART CONNOISSEUR magazine TODAY'S MASTERS. LESLEY GILES: Around the Water's Edge by Joseph Ruzicka. May/June issue 2016
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"Lesley blurs the line between traditional notions of landscape & graphic arts. Like Pop Artists of a generation earlier, Giles elevates product logos and common goods as the subjects of fine art. Giles's exaggerated colors and stylized patterns, as seen in her striped skies, separate her from earlier artists"
Ryan Grover, Curator, Biggs Museum of American Art, Delaware May 2014
"..... I first saw Lesley's work in an exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London, in 1991 & I wrote about it in the London Sunday Times.....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"
Andrew Lambirth, Art Writer, Spectator Magazine London
".....bold minimalist landscapes....."
Sarah Higgins, Curator Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
Ryan Grover, Curator, Biggs Museum of American Art, Delaware May 2014
"..... I first saw Lesley's work in an exhibition at the Barbican Centre, London, in 1991 & I wrote about it in the London Sunday Times.....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"
Andrew Lambirth, Art Writer, Spectator Magazine London
".....bold minimalist landscapes....."
Sarah Higgins, Curator Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida