LeslieMaconVisionaryArt.com
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Leslie Macon Web Site
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- I am an oil painter living and working in Archer Lodge, North Carolina. I have painted professionally since 1994. My art career began as a wood carver in 1984 when I started carving duck decoys from basswood and tupelo. I eventually apprenticed under a world class cajun decoy carver and that was where I first discovered painting with oils. I switched from carving to painting in pastel and oil mediums in the early 1990's. It was during this time that I competed in national and international competitions as a wildlife artist winning awards and selling through art galleries. In 2001 I decided to experiment with other subjects and explored floral and still life. During that time I worked for Websters Fine Art Publishing and had several collections published for the home decor market. In 2006, I had burnt out on doing home decor and pretty much hit a creative brick wall. I didn't paint for eight months and didn't know if I would ever paint again. After months of agonizing soul searching I came to the conclusion that if I couldn't paint I just didn't want to be here. I had to learn how to reach my creative side all over again and it was not easy. I used a CD embedded with theta waves to relax me and help me open up to the part of me where my subconscious creates my thoughts and images and find inspiration again. One day, like a bolt out of the blue, idea after idea came spilling into my brain, like a dam of inspirational imagery had burst leaving me flooded with potential paintings. Since that day I have stuck to a promise I made to myself that I would only paint what inspired me and my Visionary art is the result. My wish is that people who love art will find in my paintings the same inspiration that I do when I create them.
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English
