Lesley Frenz is an emerging artist working in acrylics and watercolors. Born and raised in coastal North Florida, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Florida where she studied Art History and Painting. After working in several creative industries, Frenz married and left Florida in 2011 to travel the West and Northwest with her husband. While traveling, she wrote a successful art blog and began freelance work on behalf of galleries and artists, but never stopped painting. Years of travel and living among such incredible beauty spilled out in January 2013 as she pursued a serious studio practice while continuing to travel. An avid hiker and backpacker, Frenz finds inspiration in wild places and her studio practice is centered around the exploration of the intersectionality between the spiritual and earthbound in the form of abstracted landscape paintings.

Frenz began exhibiting work in 2015, followed soon by her first solo exhibition in 2016, she is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle, WA. Hanging up their traveling shoes, Frenz and her husband have found home in Mount Vernon, Washington, a small town nestled in the Skagit Valley between the North Cascade mountains and the Salish Sea.

Her work can be found in various private collections in the US, Canada, and the EU.

Moments found on wilderness trails in these Pacific Northwest mountains I now call home capture my heart and my imagination and move me to put paint to canvas. I carry them with me in photographs and memory until I am ready to allow them to spill forth in color.

Through paintings in acrylic and watercolor, I am seeking to capture the feeling not just of a place, but of a moment. Pulling forth from those memories, I begin each painting,building up layer upon layer of color and transparent glazes, allowing the composition to emerge as it will, until the surface is transformed into a representation of an experience of locale and moment in time. It is my goal that these surfaces convey the sense of atmosphere and mystery I find in these wild and untamed places, mirroring the wildness in us all.

Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle, WA

Lauren Gallow Communications, Seattle, WA

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Seattle, WA

McCarrey Counseling, Round Rock, TX

Lee Health Coconut Point, Estero, FL

Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL

Baptist Medical Center South, Jacksonville, FL

River City Contractors, Jacksonville, FL

ScanSource, Inc., Greenville, SC

Various private collections in the US, Canada, and the EU