'Comme dans une spirale, Leslie Greene nous entraine dans sa peinture et son rapport au monde par un discours pictural très construit. Les formes sont sensuelles, les couleurs vibrantes. L'intériorité palpable. A la fois dévoilement et offrande. La peinture de Leslie Greene fonctionne par couches acryliques qui fusionnent, par lignes qui marquent l'intérieur et l'extérieur, la transmission et la concentration de l'énergie.'

Colette Holl
Galerie Octobre



‘The presentness of painting keeps one alert and wondering.’

From a conversation with Robert Kramer

Colors brewed and divulged onto the canvas into a steamy dream, one layer amalgamates with another and we see through lines and twists of fated layers.

Water is my preferred medium : translucent watercolors , inks transmuting on paper or thick acrylic drips of paint trickling down into built up layers on canvas. My paintings are informal, playful, immediate and essential.

My art is a search for something that is both inexplicable and deeply known . An improvised stroke of a questioning gesture discovers itself next to a bold color, the juxtaposition of it’s shape next to a gentle blur, provoking something unexpected which gives pause and speaks.

Painting allows information to come through us, from non-visual sources and gives voice to the ineffable. When the emotional, intellectual & spiritual come together in visual form and give meaning, those are the moments I paint for.
The limits of a canvas and it’s colors can reflect ourselves with infinite possibilities.

Leslie Greene