Leslie Adler

Right now I am working on two bodies of work. Both are in their infancy stage.
I am making new wood carvings from my nature photography. I will be then making a series of hand pulled prints. I had made my first carvings in 2018. I have a very limited no of prints of these. I love the way the carvings and prints came out. I think a large series of prints is the way to go with this. The plates/wood carvings themselves are beautiful.
I have just started a new painting series. During COVID I was quarantine in Vermont. The weather was very bad almost the entire time. Like most of my colleagues, resources and space to work were limited.
I ended up doing quite a lot of drawing. Besides finishing two large detailed drawings, I drew my dog, my wonderful companion every night. She would sleep in a chair across from me and I'd draw. Often times she'd roll around but I kept at it. When I got back to New Jersey I started Plein Air Painting. I realized that drawing my dog had helped me draw without attachment to line or photo. This is very important for the individual perspective and imagination needed for my painting. I plan on working on a series of plein air paintings, both water medium and oils that focuses on working from awareness and attention to the view at hand. I then bring that back into the studio and make a new construct with a different medium. One other aspect of these new painting that is very different from my older work is color. Almost all my work had very little color content. I am really going for it with the color in this experimental stage but we will see if I need to back off a little or not.