L Rowland
On this page you find examples of the artist’s works. To learn more about available works and pricing, please contact our Gallery Director available through our contact page.
L Rowland’s work has ulterior motives. One is to cultivate awareness of and the will to protect wildlife and wild places. The other is to ease the viewers into healing themselves, so that they can develop the capacity to go out and make our world better.
Biography
L Rowland
Biography
Leslie has been creating compulsively since she was a small child. To her mother’s dismay, she turned paint by number projects into works of impressionism. Her father would return home to find the entire driveway adorned with chalk drawings. When her parents took away the chalk, she turned to much more permanent bark; the world was her canvas. Becoming an artist was not a conscious decision but a compulsory happening.
Fast forward- Leslie’s work has been sold and exhibited nationally and internationally and has been represented in galleries in Paris and throughout the United Sates. Leslie’s studio has been in Asheville, NC for ten years.
Art for Leslie is a form of communication, sometimes visceral and sometimes direct. She believes that the intention of art emanates from a painting long after the paint has dried and for this reason, she focuses on works that reveal, heal and radiate joy. These porcelain-like paintings are created through a time and labor-intensive processes created by the artist. Her process is markedly unique in the art world.
Leslie is inspired by exploring new subjects in her work while blending science and art. There are several series represented in her body of work. Paintings in the “Ecological Stories” series depict intricate connections found I the natural world. The “Binary Code Mantras” series offers messages written in binary code such as “You are Beautiful,” “You’ve Got This,” and “Fuck It; Let’s Dance” The “Music Sound Waves” series presents interpretations of actual music waveforms derived from individual songs ranging from monks chanting “Om” to rock-n -roll.
In addition to an art-filled life, Leslie has a graduate degree in environmental policy and management and an undergraduate degree in environmental science. She owns two Asheville art galleries, Gallery COR and Joan Awake, enjoys experiencing new cultures through world travel. Leslie also sings and plays congas with her husband, Wade on guitar and harmonica and bandmate Ernie Marquez on base and vocals in their band Mutha’ Nature. Leslie lives in the Appalachian Mountains in a 100-year-old craftsman cabin on the Rocky Broad River with her four rescued cats, eleven-year-old chocolate lab and her extremely tolerant husband.
