Lesley Richmond was born in Cornwall, England, and now lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She was very interested in art at school and enjoyed painting and drawing. At Trent Park College (now Middlesex University) she specialised in Fine Art and discovered textiles in her final year. She studied for a Masters degree in the US, specialising in Textile Education. She went on to become an Textile Arts teacher at Capilano College, Vancouver, Canada and retired in 2003, after 30 years of teaching. During this time she continued to practice as a studio artist.
Lesley now works full time in her studio.
Lesley's work is in collections in the USA, Japan, Poland, Korea and Canada, including:
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Art in Embassies, Dept. of State, USA, Libreville, Gabon, Africa
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Royal Caribbean International Corporate Collection, Eclipse Cruise Ship
The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
Her recent exhibitions include:
Game Changers-Fiber Art Masters and Innovators, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, USA, 2014;
Nature in Craft, Wayne Art Center, USA, 2013,
Crafts Embrace the World, Choengju International Craft Competition Winners, Korean Craft Museum 2012, S. Korea
SOFA Chicago & New York 2011/12,
The 12th International Triennial of Tapestry 2007, Lodz, Poland.
Her work is featured in:
Textiles - The Art of Mankind, Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson
Vol. 40 of the The Portfolio Collection by Telos Art Publishing, UK
Art Textiles of the World - Canada, by Telos Art Publishing, UK
Lesley is inspired by the architectural elegance of trees, she works from photographs, focusing on the intricacy of branching structures and then prints these images on cloth, using a medium that creates a dimensional surface. She then eliminates selected background areas, leaving the structural images of trees as the dominant feature. This process is called Devorè. The images are then painted with metal patinas and pigments.
She has said:
"I almost don't want to do it if I know what's going to happen at the end. It has to be something unexpected'. *
Lesley has a fascination in finding beauty in decay and working in a more abstract way, but more recently her work (Distant Forest Series) is far more realistic. She enjoys exploring and experimenting, and on-the-spot problem solving, responding to the effects her techniques have on the fabrics.
* Quote taken from:
Richmond, L. and Martineau, S. (2007). Lesley Richmond. Brighton, England: Telos Art Publishing.
Lesley now works full time in her studio.
Lesley's work is in collections in the USA, Japan, Poland, Korea and Canada, including:
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, USA
Art in Embassies, Dept. of State, USA, Libreville, Gabon, Africa
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Royal Caribbean International Corporate Collection, Eclipse Cruise Ship
The Central Museum of Textiles, Lodz, Poland.
Her recent exhibitions include:
Game Changers-Fiber Art Masters and Innovators, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, USA, 2014;
Nature in Craft, Wayne Art Center, USA, 2013,
Crafts Embrace the World, Choengju International Craft Competition Winners, Korean Craft Museum 2012, S. Korea
SOFA Chicago & New York 2011/12,
The 12th International Triennial of Tapestry 2007, Lodz, Poland.
Her work is featured in:
Textiles - The Art of Mankind, Mary Schoeser, Thames & Hudson
Vol. 40 of the The Portfolio Collection by Telos Art Publishing, UK
Art Textiles of the World - Canada, by Telos Art Publishing, UK
Lesley is inspired by the architectural elegance of trees, she works from photographs, focusing on the intricacy of branching structures and then prints these images on cloth, using a medium that creates a dimensional surface. She then eliminates selected background areas, leaving the structural images of trees as the dominant feature. This process is called Devorè. The images are then painted with metal patinas and pigments.
She has said:
"I almost don't want to do it if I know what's going to happen at the end. It has to be something unexpected'. *
Lesley has a fascination in finding beauty in decay and working in a more abstract way, but more recently her work (Distant Forest Series) is far more realistic. She enjoys exploring and experimenting, and on-the-spot problem solving, responding to the effects her techniques have on the fabrics.
* Quote taken from:
Richmond, L. and Martineau, S. (2007). Lesley Richmond. Brighton, England: Telos Art Publishing.