“We live in a beautiful country!
I love being outside, and produce modern acrylic, mixed media and felted merino landscapes from my photographs and experiences. Light, shape, colour, contrast and texture, are all fantastic stimuli, and abundant in our Scottish landscape. From the blue waters of the West Coast, to the rolling Borders Hills.
Originals, prints, big and small, on canvas or paper giclée prints, on velvet cushions and lampshades; art can transform our surroundings and lift us.”
Artist - Lesley Johnson
Living in Peebles, and working part time as a Science teacher, and an artist, ticks three boxes for me….my love of people, visual arts and beautiful open spaces.
I live through my eyes, and love being outside. Light, shape, colour, texture and contrast are obsessions; fantastic stimuli, and abundant in our Scottish landscape. From the Caribbean-esque waters of the West Coast, to the rolling sunlit Borders Hills, against grey rainy skies. It’s all beautiful to me!
I’ve painted since my teens, (and that’s a long time ago now;-), but have never been formally trained as an artist. Maybe that is why my style changes so much and my finished pieces are sometimes so diverse?
I love the spontaneity of working in pastels, inks, collage and quick drying acrylic, often scratching back or splashing the work to reveal previous layers. I love how tactile felting is, and how texture is so easy to come by with wool…it often crinkles in ways you weren’t expecting with pleasing results. I’ve started to introduce new fibres: silk, bamboo etc, and don’t stop at picking up balls of fluff and threads from the Shedio floor (my studio is in our shed!).
I’ll happily work on commissions, and also reproduce my own work as cost effective prints in two different styles; box canvas or giclée prints on archival paper.
Also cards, velvet cushions, lampshades and felted crafts like landscape tea cosies, and ‘cuffitieres’ for your coffee pot, even the odd hot water bottle commission.
I’ve exhibited many times now, but mainly in Peebles. Some tea cosies and art however have travelled the world as far as Australia!