Carol Lesher is an American landscape painter. Born in 1962 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, andcurrently residing in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Carol has exhibited widely in both Pennsylvaniaand Delaware.Carol has always been drawn to the natural world, and her work continually explores the expansivelandscape. She works on large canvases, balancing the tension between minimalist and maximalistexpression.Her paintings, always grounded in the representational, have evolved from vignettes framed withinthe landscape to the larger, more expressive, and expansive landscape itself. Though grounded in therepresentational, her focus lies increasingly in the material qualities of the paints themselves, and thebrushwork used to apply them, layer by layer building beautiful passages within the work into agreater whole.Carol graduated from the University of Delaware in 1984 with a BFA in Painting. Her workexperience includes ten years managing the art collection of MBNA America. She began paintingfull-time in 1999.Her influences include Diebenkorn, Hopper, Katz and Fairfield Porter — each a painter of greatstrength and commitment to their medium.Carol’s work ethic is strong; when not painting, she is constantly thinking about the possibilities forher work, and how she can push her creative growth and exploration further. She’s focused oncreating work with the idea that the delivery of paint on the canvas is an act that creates its ownexcitement and its own forms. She seeks the beauty inherent in this process.Her work is marked by a consistent stylistic integrity. She employs brushes of all sizes, wields herpalette knife to shift surfaces, and carefully considers when and where to use each tool.Carol aims to continue creating paintings for people to enjoy, develop gallery relationships that willsupport the evolution of her work, and develop this work to its fullest potential. She has no end pointin mind — the painting is its own goal, its own reward.