Katherine Leslie (B. 1988, Wpg) is an artist currently working in Tofino BC. Over the past decade Leslie has lived on the west coast taking intermittent leave to travel, complete her BFA at Emily Carr University, (2016) as well as the LA Summer Residency at OTIS college (2019). She recently spent 2021 converting a 1912 storefront into a studio space in Nanaimo BC before returning to the west coast.
Katherine Leslie’s paintings explore a feeling of place through abstraction, inspired by her lived experiences on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Leslie explored the idea of real and imagined places, melding them together through memory and daydreams. By using a lowered perspective her work invokes a feeling of floating in water looking upward, or by seeing a place through the eyes of a child. Using an intuitive process, the images are recalled through memory and informed by bodies of vibrant colour creating the feeling of the places that initially inspired her.
contact - K@Katleslie.com
