Artist Roster

Leslie Lesko’s watercolors, pastel paintings, and fine art photography have been featured in juried exhibitions across Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic region. As a self-taught painter and photographer, she gravitates toward macro views of flowers, intimate portraits, and abstract compositions.

Her watercolor abstracts draw deeply from her experiences with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and her background in clinical psychology. Leslie views ADHD not as a disorder, but as a unique lens through which she processes information, perceives sensory stimulation, and navigates emotion. The ongoing tension between order and chaos informs her work, which is built in transparent watercolor on cold-pressed paper. Through layered washes, luminosity, and a restrained yet resonant color palette, Leslie creates visual narratives that feel alive and in motion. Influenced by pioneering women of abstract expressionism—including Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, and Helen Frankenthaler—she embraces Grace Hartigan’s words as a guiding philosophy: “Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.”

An active member of the regional arts community, Leslie belongs to the Rehoboth Art League, Mispillion Art League, the Art League of Ocean City, and the Academy Art Museum in Easton. Since 2017, she has coordinated the Rehoboth Art League’s weekly sketch group, and in 2025 she was invited to join the Cape Artists Gallery in Lewes. That same year, she was awarded an Opportunity Grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts to support conservation framing for her upcoming solo exhibition at the Dover Public Library.