Women in Art - Raising the Bar

Lesley Oldaker is a visual artist, based in the UK, who has exhibited her work in the UK, USA, Switzerland, Slovakia, Ireland, Italy, France, Sweden, India and China and has paintings in private and corporate collections around the world.

​Her work observes modern day society and explores through painting, our complex relationships, transient nature and purpose within random moving figurative groups and our interactions within the space around us.  

​Inspiration and ideas evolve from events seen in the media and in society generally that evoke strong emotional responses in the artist. By further exploring and expressing these responses to the current social conditions, a deeper emotional connection develops within the work.

​Perceptive observations of human behaviour, together with her own personal experiences, further enhance the emotive narratives of the paintings and often communicates a common sense of displacement, a question of belonging and relevance within our shared urban environments.

​Lesleys process originates from drawing, photographic and observational studies of large public spaces where there is a continual sense of movement within the urban landscape.  These studies enable her to abstract the essence of emotion, form, space and colour for the paintings.
Painterly mark making and a limited colour pallet helps evoke a further suggestion of mood and place, encouraging the viewer to personally explore and interpret the painting

www.lesleyoldakerfineart.com

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