SIGEL GALLERY, AUGUST 1 -31
Artist Leslie Voiers loves color. “My work explores the relationship between emotion and color,” said the New Hampshire-based weaver, painter and textile artist.
Her one-artist show at Falmouth Art Center in August called, “Loom to Canvas,” is an exhibition of her paintings and textiles.
Christine Anderson, who heads Falmouth Art Center’s weaving program, encouraged Ms. Voiers to have a show in Falmouth.
Ms. Voiers explained her work relies on intuitive color choices.
“Emotive lighting of architectural components, landscape or flowers guides me toward compositions, be it the atmospherics of a sunset, beauty of gardens, reflections in water or shadows and light on buildings,” Ms. Voiers said.
A retired weaver/educator based in Harrisville, New Hampshire, Ms. Voiers spent part of her career working at Harrisville Designs, Churchill Weavers and Merida Meridian as a textile designer.
Many of her own works from Harrisville Designs were featured in national weaving magazines. She also was a designer for many textile exhibits at the Andover Textile museum and at the Lowell Textile museum.
In addition to teaching workshops at weaving conferences, Harrisville Designs and weaving guilds throughout the country, she taught courses at Keene State College, University of Texas and Mass. College of Art.
She is also the author of several weaving publications and monographs that continue to be in demand.
While she has both a BFA in painting and an MFA in Textiles, she has transitioned from the textile field to painting. She has traveled to paint in New Mexico, Maine, France Portugal and Italy and of course in the Monadnock region and her town of Harrisville.
Leslie’s oil paintings and woven works often draw inspiration from New England landscapes, gardens, flowers, changing foliage, mill villages, and the subtle interplay of light and texture found in rural surroundings.
Her landscapes and floral compositions are controlled yet bursting with color — restrained compositions energized by rich, saturated palettes.
In both her weavings and paintings she balances structural precision with expressive chromatic intensity, producing works that feel both meticulously crafted and vibrantly alive.
