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Artist's Profile Leslie Frontz is a multi-faceted artist, but it is likely that she will be best remembered for her watercolors. Although she received her first professional paintbox at the age of thirteen, it was her later introduction to watercolors that prompted her to become a professional artist. Leslie earned the M.F.A. degree in studio arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, formerly the Women's College of North Carolina, where she was the first graduating recipient of the Holderness Fellowship. The artist has been recognized in "Who's Who in America" and "Who's Who in American Art," featured in "The Artist's Magazine" and "U.S. Art," and has exhibited work at numerous museums and galleries, including the Smithsonian and the Mall Galleries in London. She is an elected member of the prestigious Society of Women Artists in London, a member of the Southern Watercolor Society in the U.S., and a founding member of Plein Air Carolina. Leslie has 25 years experience as a professional artist and teacher. She currently is a faculty member at Davidson County Community College in Lexington, North Carolina. Leslie Frontz studied watercolor with Bernard Evans in Britain, the birthplace of watercolor painting as a fine art medium. To this day, the artist's admiration for the traditional English school of watercolor is clearly evident in her work. Her painting technique is clean and direct, using a minimum amount of brushwork to indicate her subjects with great simplicity. The effect leaves much to our imagination while convincing us of the authenticity of her observations. Balancing luminous grays against pure color accents, she captures not only the literal scene, but also instills it with light and atmosphere. One notices immediately that landscapes dominate her catalog. A closer inspection, however, reveals her preference for subjects that incorporate a human element--figures, architecture and maritime themes. It should not be surprising that subjects from both Britain and America hold a prominent place in her work, as she maintains family ties on both sides of the Atlantic. To even the most informed eye, her appeal covers an astonishingly broad range. Classicists will appreciate an obvious bow to European traditions in her work. Although these paintings are modern in subject, in style they have the brevity of Impressionism. Her experiments with pattern and composition as independent elements are akin to more modern viewpoints.
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