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February 2000 Antigua Leslie, Mark, Susan, Kelly, Ginger, Scott & Fred “Left Traverse City at 8:30 a.m. At 11:45 a.m. stopped in West Palm for fuel before arriving at Jumby Bay, Antigua around 4 p.m. No car. Ferry to resort with Omar and rum punches. Very spread-out biking paths, wide open villas, Kelly, Susan, Ginger in MBR. I in single room closest to water. Mark in single at back, Scott has a twin with Fred, but may sleep on the back veranda. Huge living, dining area and covered walkways connecting the rooms. A shared pool with two other villas. No surf as prevailing winds are from the southwest and we are pointing rather more north–breezy though.” —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journals: 1999 Antigua (2000 02 18 Antigua, Jumby Bay, View of the Bay Through Shutters and 2000 02 21 Antigua, Jumby Bay, Conch Shell) https://www.leestudiotc.com/ #LeeStudio #artwork #traveljournal #Antigua #JumbyBay
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Thursday 28 March 1996 Sandy Lane, Barbados “Breakfast on the patio as usual. I have coffee delivered with newspapers at 7:30 a.m. Sometimes I’m up earlier, sometimes later. I read papers etc. ‘til 10ish then head to the ocean. The warning flags were still posted but the surf was down just enough to play most of the time, then get hit by a big wave unexpectedly. Very watchful in the water.” —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journals: 1996 Barbados (1996 03 31 Barbados, Coffee Pot with Green Stripes and On the Patio at Sandy Lane) https://www.leestudiotc.com/ #LeeStudio #artwork #traveljournal #Barbados #SandyLane
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Sunday 24 March 1996 Sandy Lane, Barbados “This property—Sandy Lane, is beautiful—and quite British, with their dress codes and segregation of the children (not ours). We will have ten days, now eight I guess, but enough time to let the minutes of the day slow down to a tropical pace. I had just started this and my coffee when the kids came from their patio this a.m. Off we went to the pool which is no great shakes—stayed thirty minutes. Then went to lunch after which we stayed at the ocean right in front of our rooms. The setting is gorgeous. Steel drums played in the courtyard at lunch. We sat under a huge canvas umbrella. Breezes. The girls constantly are searching out plants and flowers, birds, bugs, and lizards that we have never seen. We all have our sketchbooks.” —Excerpt and images from Leslie’s Travel Companion Journals: 1996 Barbados (1996 03 24 Barbados, Three Geckos and 1996 03 31 Barbados, Umbrellas at Sandy Lane) https://www.leestudiotc.com/ #LeeStudio #artwork #traveljournal #Barbados #SandyLane
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“I was completely charmed by this insightful and heartfelt portrait of Ireland. Leslie Lee’s descriptions of the people she met and the places she visited are so well written, so immediate, that I felt like I was there.” Jerry Dennis, Michigan Author
About the Artist
Not formally trained in art, Leslie began to draw when she traveled as a way to see more clearly what was around her. She carried a notebook, pen and tiny paint kit instead of a camera, and when everyone else was clicking away, she whipped out her kit and painted—fast. The simplicity of her paint palette and the speed with which she painted has become her signature style.
Northwest Lower Michigan defines her. She considers herself part of the landscape among the bluestems and butterfly weed, beneath the cedars, willows, and maple trees. The wind of the woods and water speak her language and sing the songs of her childhood. How will a visitor know us if we don’t know who we are? How will we venture out in the world if we have nothing of ourselves to offer? If we treasure our origins, we take these gifts out to the world as we travel, and come home again, enriched twice over. Wherever we are, every day, we create the story and the adventure of our lives. Here are her favorite stories and drawings.
After a lifetime of writing and painting in the margins of work and family, now semi-retired, Leslie has made it a priority to share. Thirty years of travel journals and paintings have been dusted off, edited, and excerpted and will be appearing here on her website as books, fine art, folded note cards and postcards, and other gifts and products for sale.
Leslie's Note Cards
All of our fine art reproductions use archival inks and paper and are suitable for framing. Giclee is another term for this process. The color and quality of the reproductions are so impeccable, it’s difficult to tell they’re not the originals until you turn them over to read the printed details of the image. Framed, they look great on the wall and make wonderful gifts.
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Leslie's Artwork
- Parknabinna #7 Wedge Tomb from the East2019 05 20 Ireland, Co. Clare, Parknabinna from East
- Standing Stone in County Clare on Inish Orr Island2010 10 16 Ireland, Inish Orr Island, Standing Stone
- Spring Lighthouse in Blue2020 02 20 Michigan, Elk Rapids, Spring Lighthouse Blue
- The Old Cypress at the Post Ranch2014 12 00 California, Big Sur, Post Ranch, Cypress
- Chatham Strait, Humpback Whales2000 07 03 Alaska, Chatham Strait, Humpback Whales
- 2021 Scotland Road Map2021 Scotland Road Map