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Lesley Birch
 
 
About the Artist

In the 1980s I was a musician playing keyboards touring with pop band Hue and Cry. I also wrote and performed my own songs. Now my creativity is expressed through my art.

My collagraphs and etchings are abstract explorations of the effects of Time on the landscape and the hope of rebirth.

My paintings are more colourful in acrylic, watercolour, pastel, collage - anything I can get my hands on. I suppose my musical roots inform my work - I like to use lively, gestural marks.

I am inspired by the Scottish mountains, the beautiful scenery in North Yorkshire where I now live and my travels to Italy and Spain.

 
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this quiet morning

2008
monoprint with drypoint
30 x 20

this quiet morning
one of Wordsworth Series of prints

Wild Wood 2

2009
oil
40 x 30

Wild Wood 2
collagraph on Somerset

Passing Ship

2009
oil
50 x 50

Passing Ship
monoprint on Somerset

Hunger

2005
pastel on paper
40 x 20

Hunger
 
Education and biography
University of Glasgow MA
University of Strathclyde PGCE
Printmaking and Painting courses in Curwen Studios, Linton, Cambridgeshire; The Perse and Hills Road College, Hills Road, Cambridge; Harrogate College, North Yorkshire.
Certificate in Printmaking
 
Future shows
Next Exhibition: Doncaster Open 2009; St Gemma's Hospice, Oct29-Nov2 at The Grammar School, Leeds


Previous exhibitions:The Great North Show, 2009, Ripon, North Yorkshire
April 2009 "4 Seasons in 1 Day", The Gallery, Masham
April 2009 "A sense of place" (solo) South Square Centre, Bradford
Leeds Art Fair 2009 (winner of Satellite Group Award with Something Visual group of Artists)
Doncaster Open 2007, 2008
Harrogate Open 2008 (highly commended)
Leeds Open 2008, 2009
A1 Open 2008, Richmond
Saltaire Arts Trail 2008
South Street Gallery, Scarborough
East Coast Open, Scarborough Art Gallery until March 2
Harrogate Printmakers Exhibition, Harrogate Library until March 22
The Station Gallery, Richmond until March 14th
The Flat Cat Gallery, Scottish Borders, until April 2008
Ripple Six, Huddersfield May 2008
RHS Harlow Carr, Harrogate July 2008
Yorkshire Galleries:
Artfulness, York, www.artfulness.co.uk
Anstey Galleries, Harrogate www.ansteygalleries.co.uk
The Chantry House Gallery, Ripley, North Yorkshire www.chantryhousegallery.co.uk
 
Website:  www.lesleybirch.co.uk
 
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