“The freshness and spontaneity of a Plein air painting, the feelings I’m experiencing at that moment, the vibrant colour and the dynamic brushstrokes; that’s what my paintings are all about. I fell in love with painting from life when I was 12 years old, painting beside myGrandfather who told me to ‘paint what you see’. In the beginning of this grand adventure Iwanted to paint; now I have to paint.”
Career Highlights
Leslie Allen is a Signature Member of Women Artists of the West, a Founding and Signature
Member of Plein Air Artists Colorado, and an Associate Member of Oil Painters of America, and
the American Impressionist Society. Leslie was juried into the International Plein Air Painters
World Tour in 2008. This award-winning Plein air oil painter (2009 Meininger Award, 2007
WAOW Fine Art Connoisseur Award of Excellence; 2006 3rd Place Award of Merit; Estes Park
Plein Air, 2005 Juror’s Choice Award; 2004 "Best in Show" Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters
Miniature Show; 2002 "Best Impressionistic Painting" National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society)
produces colourful, intimate landscapes infused with light, that translate feelings and
impressions onto the canvas.
Her magpie piece "Waiting" was featured in the 2003
September/October issue of Wildlife Art magazine; and “Red-Winged Blackbirds in the 2007
November/December issue. Her work is in collections across the US and Canada, South
America, England, Australia and Germany. She is represented by The Art Services Company, Denver,
CO; The Foothills Art Center Gift Gallery, Golden, CO; SOHO Myriad, Atlanta, GA; and Allen
Fine Art Studio, Denver. |
