Leslie@LeslieMorganArt.com

I am currently living and working in San Francisco.  My painting studio is in a cottage in my garden.  Lots of light and quiet!  My print making studio is at Hunters Point Shipyard, building 101, studio 1110.

 Artist Statement

I was born and raised in the middle of a Texas desert, dry, hot , brown and aridly ugly.  The nearest ocean was 600 miles away. As kids we dreamed of tropical islands, pirate boats and sea creatures. Our primary mode of entertainment was the public pool or if we were lucky enough to get invited to the neighbor's backyard pool.  We would run across the 102 degree, melting asphalt to dive full bore into a cool pool on a miserably hot day.

My work has come from these memories of summers spent leaping and diving, cannonballs and back flips, breath holding contests and looking up through chlorine filtered sunlight, daydreaming.  In water, we become weightless, buoyant and free. I still seek this feeling this vantage point.  I do this through combining two different mediums to create a hybrid image.  Starting with family and personal photographs altered to be more perfectly composed then painted over, with some parts remaining untouched.  The underlying image serves as the memory.  The paint on top relays the emotions, the colors that we all have inside that adds to the memory.  Together they create a nostalgic version of the past that I carry with me into the present.