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Sunday 23 April 2023 From Kinloch House To Fife Arms, Braemar Grampian Mountains, Scotland “Agggh—rain and cold predicted for our drive into the mountains to the Fife Arms, our hotel perfectly situated in the center of Aberdeenshire to be able to reach both the north coast and the east coast, except that we need to travel up and down the mountains each day. It was this day we visited the Aberlemno stones sited on the side of the road. Jen was especially taken by the Crescent stone as the crescent is a symbol she adds to her glass work. On the way to the Fife Arms through the brooding Cairngorm Mountains. After the remoteness of the drive, we were surprised to find the hotel on the street in the small town in Braemar.” —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journal: 2023 Ireland and Scotland, (IMG_5692 and IMG_5701) https://www.leestudiotc.com/ #Ireland #DiscoverScotland #celtic #Scotland #traveljournal #artwork #LeeStudio #KinlochHouse #FifeArms #Braemar #GrampianMountains
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Sunday 24 November 2002 Scilly Key, Anguilla “We’re with Nature Boy and Adrian of Chocolat the 35’ sail catamaran we’ve taken from Sandy Ground, to here. Snorkeled in Little Bay. People fish from the rocks with just line—saw a spotted ray, swarms of “fry”—what we call minnows.” —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journals: 2002 Anguilla (2002 11 23 Anguilla, Scilly Bay, Patio) https://www.leestudiotc.com/ #LeeStudio #artwork #traveljournal #Anguilla #CoveCastles
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Sunday 23 April 2023 From Kinloch House To Fife Arms, Braemar Grampian Mountains, Scotland “My impression of this area of Scotland is of the abundance and wealth of an English countryside rather than of Scotland, and maybe it is full of the rich English who have lived here since the lands were taken from the Scots. Or perhaps these are the former Scottish Chiefs who became wealthy Scottish lords when they were granted land by the English peerage. This part of Scotland has that royal feel. I can imagine Lords and Ladies visiting their country estates for a few hunting weekends a year the way the kings and queens visit Glamis and Balmoral. The land rolls and rises in wide valleys of cultivated fields, with hoop houses of vegetables, herbs, vines, shrubs, and trees under propagation. The River Tay is spectacular—brown, clear, rushing over rocks, throwing sparkles in the air. Dunkeld, the small town nearby we visited yesterday, sits on the banks of the Tay with a beautifully arched bridge to Birnam. Macbeth’s castle is not far from here.” —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journal: 2023 Ireland and Scotland, (IMG_5665) https://www.leestudiotc.com/ #Ireland #DiscoverScotland #celtic #Scotland #traveljournal #artwork #LeeStudio #FifeArms #Braemar #GrampianMountains
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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
- Spring Lighthouse in Blue2020 02 20 Michigan, Elk Rapids, Spring Lighthouse Blue
- Legannany Dolmen2010 10 28 Ireland, Co. Down, Legannany Dolmen
- Wake of the Seabird2000 07 03 Alaska, Off Baranof Island, Wake of The Seabird
- A Port Appin Cottage2003 06 25 Scotland, Argyll, Port Appin, A Cottage
- Loophead Peninsula2007 04 13 Ireland, Co. Clare, Loophead Peninsula
- Chiesa Del Collegio1999 11 19 Italy, Sicily, Siracusa, Chiesa Del Collegio