Lesley is a pioneer in taking the 150-year old cyanotype process into the modern digital age, blending the classic and contemporary to create truly unique botanical art. To create her modern botanicals, Lesley combines the cyanotype process with a little water (wet-cyanotype) and leaves gathered from as close as outside her door, to wherever her travels take her, to create carefully composed original cyanotype prints.

These camera-less photographic blueprints become the bones for her subsequent 21st century digital artistry, combining layers of pattern and color culled from her own paintings, artwork and photographs.

Inspiration literally falls at her feet and creativity abounds in an empty nest she shares with her high-school sweetheart husband on a mountaintop in Cascade, MD. You’ll find Lesley in her indoor and outdoor studio from sunup to sundown unless, of course, any of her six children or 16 grandchildren come to visit.