ABOUT
Lesley Cox is a landscape artist working in oils and she lives and works in Clonakilty West Cork
Originally from Dublin, Lesley and her family moved to Rossmore, Clonakilty in 2007. Lesley’s passion is painting in oils and her inspirations are the beautiful rural and coastal landscapes that surround her, capturing the particular Irish light and tones is her ultimate goal.
Lesley creates atmospheric landscape oil paintings that explore the emotional pull of place, memory and stillness. Through layered texture applied by pallette knife and scraped back to expose earlier passages of paint and with a distinctive moody palette, she aims to capture the quiet tension between light and shadow, presence and absence.
Rather than depicting a literal scene, her work seeks to evoke a certain feeling - the silence of mist, the shimmer of water, the shifting atmosphere of given moments.
Lesley's paintings blend cool tones with warm sparks inviting calm relection and quiet depth. Her will bring a thoughtful, soothing ambience to any space.
Representations of self are of interest to her and her work has been informed by personal experience, her environment and passion for interpreting both the human form and an ever-changing landscape and self-scape. Lesley’s work has been exhibited extensively nationwide and is held in private collections both in Ireland and internationally.
Lesley has a BA in Visual Art from DIT, Sherkin Island and an MA in Art and Process from Crawford College of Art and Design.
