Contact Information:

www.leslieparke.com

Artist Statement:

While traditional representational paintings tend to act as "windows on the world", my paintings use realistic images to exert contemporary abstract principles, such as, monumental scale, frontality and a gesture that asserts the surface of a painting. The paintings may depict flowers, water, trees and branches, but they are about shapes, colors, space and light.

That being said, by working from nature I am able to reintroduce into my work something that is not possible in a purely abstract painting, and that is the quality of light and place at a particular moment.

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