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View post on Facebook >2014 Stones of the Callanish Isle of Lewis, Scotland “The Callanish stones on Lewis seem to mark interaction between the moon and the Earth. Every 18.6 years the moon reaches its most northerly position of the rising full moon, while the summer full moon reaches its most southernly moonrise. The moon skims along the horizon, rising out of the Pairc Hills (a sleeping woman outline of the Earth), across her Earthly body and sets in the Clisam Range. At the stones, the observer from the end of the avenue of stones, is the moon setting within the circle there after having been born from them.” https://www.leestudiotc.com/ —Excerpt from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journal: 2014 Scotland and Image (2023 04 11 Scotland, Isle of Lewis Callanish I in Moonlight) #LeeStudio #traveljournal #travelbooks #travelart #artwork #customartwork #uniquegifts #Scotland #IsleofLewis #StonesofCallanish
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View post on Facebook >Monday 29 November 1999 Osteria Santo Spirito Florence, Italy “At Osteria Santo Spirito. We just left the Santa Maria del Carmina where we saw the wonderful frescoes by Masaccio and Fra Filippo Lippi—the story of Peter. I had a great time sketching and would just like to sit still in one place to keep at it.” https://www.leestudiotc.com/ —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journal: 1999 Italy, Florence (1999 11 29 Italy, Florence, Coffee at Osteria Santo Spirito) #LeeStudio #traveljournal #travelbooks #travelart #artwork #customartwork #uniquegifts #Italy #Florence #OsteriaSantoSpirito
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View post on Facebook >Saturday 30 October 2010 Co. Kerry, Dingle Ireland “At one of my favorite restaurants, Out of the Blue, and dined on salmon, and beet root salad with tomato, for the first course. The second course came and went before the sketching. It was a filet of sole with butter almond—resting on a bed of red cabbage piece surrounded by bean varieties that swam in a vinaigrette.” https://www.leestudiotc.com/ —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journal: 2010 Ireland, The Long Stay (2010 10 30 Ireland, Co. Kerry, Dingle, Out of The Blue, Salmon and Beetroot Salad) #LeeStudio #traveljournal #travelbooks #travelart #artwork #customartwork #uniquegifts #Ireland #CoKerry #Dingle #OutofTheBlueRestaurant
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“I was completely charmed by this insightful and heartfelt portrait of Ireland. Leslie Lee’s descriptions of the people she met and the places she visited are so well written, so immediate, that I felt like I was there.” Jerry Dennis, Michigan Author
About the Artist
Not formally trained in art, Leslie began to draw when she traveled as a way to see more clearly what was around her. She carried a notebook, pen and tiny paint kit instead of a camera, and when everyone else was clicking away, she whipped out her kit and painted—fast. The simplicity of her paint palette and the speed with which she painted has become her signature style.
Northwest Lower Michigan defines her. She considers herself part of the landscape among the bluestems and butterfly weed, beneath the cedars, willows, and maple trees. The wind of the woods and water speak her language and sing the songs of her childhood. How will a visitor know us if we don’t know who we are? How will we venture out in the world if we have nothing of ourselves to offer? If we treasure our origins, we take these gifts out to the world as we travel, and come home again, enriched twice over. Wherever we are, every day, we create the story and the adventure of our lives. Here are her favorite stories and drawings.
After a lifetime of writing and painting in the margins of work and family, now semi-retired, Leslie has made it a priority to share. Thirty years of travel journals and paintings have been dusted off, edited, and excerpted and will be appearing here on her website as books, fine art, folded note cards and postcards, and other gifts and products for sale.
Leslie's Note Cards
All of our fine art reproductions use archival inks and paper and are suitable for framing. Giclee is another term for this process. The color and quality of the reproductions are so impeccable, it’s difficult to tell they’re not the originals until you turn them over to read the printed details of the image. Framed, they look great on the wall and make wonderful gifts.
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Leslie's Artwork
- Fog on Cliffs, Chichagoff Island2000 07 07 Alaska, Off Chichagoff Island, Fog on Cliffs
- Petroglyph Wall2015 03 29 Arizona, Canyon De Chelly, Petroglyph Wall
- Dunmore Head2010 11 16 Ireland, Co. Kerry, Dingle Peninsula, Dunmore Head
- Above Glandore Harbor2010 09 24 Ireland, Co. Cork, Glandore, Harbor
- Distant Plateau, Window, Ruins2004 11 22 New Mexico, Chaco, Plateau, Window, Ruins
- The Ring of Brodgar on Orkney2014 09 28 Scotland, Orkney, Ring of Brodgar