Lesley Giles
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​Maryland State Arts Council awarded Lesley Giles an INDEPENDENT ARTIST AWARD 2021
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​​​Lesley Giles is a contemporary painter from London, living in the USA. Her studio is on the Eastern shore near Washington DC.
Lesley paints bold, colourful images from her favourite solitary PLACES formalising the SPACE with a hint of abstraction.

She explores dramatic landscapes like Dungeness, England. Recent series include Chesapeake and Florida & the South.
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Lesley holds a Masters in Fine Art Painting ​from the 
Royal College of Art
, London.
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Red Machine Dungeness oil 36x48
COAST
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Back in Time Dungeness oil 30x40
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Sunset Bridge Chesapeake oil 24x30
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Drowning in Blue oil 24x30
LAND
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In the Woods oil 24x30
URBAN
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Hope NYC oil 30x40
INTERIORS & GARDENS
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Sally's Scarves oil 24x24
CHINA
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Confucius Temple Beijing watercolour & ink 14x11
FACES
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Laurie Anderson acrylic 12x12
SPACE.SPEED
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Daytona Speedway oil 40x30

​“Lesley Giles blurs the line between traditional notions of landscape and graphic arts. Her 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, 2014

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​“... 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, Spectator Magazine, London, 2006
"I am fascinated by the poetic, solitary beauty of the world around us. Water, derelict huts, floating laundry, osprey.
My style is formalized, I love stripes. I work with traditional media to focus on contemporary issues like the effect that
urban development can have on our lan
dscape and how ​the “ordinary” prevails. Important influences are
​Edward Hopper and f
ellow alumnus David Hockney".
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Painting a Commission for Blackwater Bakery Cambridge Maryland


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  • Home
  • Recent Work
  • Coast
    • Coast Chesapeake
    • Florida & the South >
      • work on paper
    • Miami, Keys & the Gulf
    • Storms
    • Coastal British Isles
    • Dungeness
    • Ireland
    • Coastal Europe
  • Land
    • Landscapes America
    • Landscapes Britain
    • Europe & Beyond
    • Golf Landscapes
  • Urban
    • City UK
    • Downtown USA
    • Urban Europe
  • Interior
  • China
    • China-Beijing
    • China - Silk Road
  • Faces
  • Space.Speed
    • Space
    • IronMan Maryland
    • Daytona 500
  • About
    • Exhibitions >
      • Exhibition Pictures 22/23
      • Exhibition Pictures 19/21
    • Bio & Bibliography
    • Commissions
  • Contact
    • Prints