Hand holding a curled strip of paper with a heart on it.

Looking out of a canoe at a watery view.

Sculpture of a welding mask open with lights and collage inside

Mason jar with copper wire growing blue copper oxide

Display of rusted metal in an oil tin with copper oxide and tea cup.

Selfie of Artist Leslie Love with her dog in the winter snow.

Artist Love outside surrounded by artwork

About Artist Leslie Love

Exploring Mediums to Create Meaning in Art

Mixing Personal Story, Materials, and Environment

I am artist Leslie Love, born and raised on Vancouver Island, down a winding dead-end road on a piece of land called Song Farm, where I currently reside with my family once again. In 2003, I completed my BFA with Honours in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria, focusing on drawing, photography, and painting. Currently, I am at Emily Carr University in the Low-Residency MFA program, aiming to graduate with a lovely cohort of beautiful new friends in 2027.

My multimedia works often incorporate nostalgic family imagery alongside found, thrifted, gifted, and natural handmade materials. I create a dialogue between materials, human nature and our environment, allowing the imperfections in the materials, like wood grain, texture, and flaws, to show through. These details reflect both the process and the concept behind each piece.

Focusing on Connection, Empathy, and Relationships

I am deeply drawn to exploring relationships through my art. I focus on connection, empathy, and respect for both the environment and people. Lately, I’ve been exploring how to better care for myself, my communities and the beings around me. Walking with me, is an artistic practice and methodology where I work in reciprocity with the plants and beings through listening, noticing and taking care with reciprocity. Through my work, I hope to inspire deeper, more authentic conversations and highlight the importance of real-world relationships. Allowing myself to make art feels like an expression of resistance to me.

Her art celebrates the beauty of imperfections, exposing the unique qualities of materials—wood grain, texture, and flaws—to reflect the process and concept behind each piece. Leslie’s work explores relationships between people, emphasizing connection, empathy, and respect for both the environment and one another.

In response to the current social climate, she is particularly interested in exploring themes of social and environmental justice, reflecting on the ways our world has shifted towards superficial connections through social media, algorithm-driven biases, and a troubling lack of empathy for diverse genders, cultures, and experiences. Through her work, Leslie seeks to inspire deeper, more authentic conversations and a renewed focus on real-world relationships and collective healing.

Thanks for reading!

Please feel free to reach out through my contact page or email me directly at lesliewlove@gmail.com.

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