Leslie Scott-Lysan – Lynnfield Arts

Leslie Scott-Lysan draws inspiration from color and light, whether she is working en plein air outdoors or working in her studio painting architecture, city scenes, or abstract creations. Making art for her is about working alongside the Creator. Leslie’s work reflects her spirituality and the gratitude she feels when creating and while outdoors. Her work has appeared throughout New England at juried art association shows, national shows, and resort properties. Leslie works in oil paints, cold wax, acrylic paints, mixed media, and photography. Her latest adventures are in mixed media cold wax and oil paint abstracts. Many of her paintings are impressionistic en plein air creations created across New England with visible and luscious paintbrush and paint-knife strokes.

Leslie’s numerous awards, exhibits, and recognitions include her recent 32-painting solo show at the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Other awards and national recognitions include:

• North Shore Arts Association Janice Turner Memorial Award for Excellence in Oil Painting, “Bridging the Merrimac,” 2022 Exhibit New England, in Gloucester, MA

• “Fort Point Channel Landmark: Boston Wharf Company” oil painting juried into the national 20th Frances N. Roddy Open Competition at Concord Art (MA)

• Rockport Art Association and Museum (MA), 2023 National Juried Show, mixed media painting “Winter Woods: First Snow”

Leslie’s paintings have hung in many other juried art shows, including those with Cambridge Art Association (MA), Newburyport Art Association (MA), Artist Group of Charlestown (MA), Reading Art Association (MA), North Shore Art Association (Gloucester, MA), New England Art Reach exhibit at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital (MA), Beebe estate shows (Melrose, MA), Lynnfield Arts (MA), Reading Art Association (MA), Wakefield Fine Art Exhibition and Arts Collaborative of Wakefield shows (MA). In association with the New Hampshire Plein Air group, her work hung in the “Nature’s Palette Exhibit” at the Wolfeboro Public Library (NH), Governor Wentworth Arts Council and has hung at the Bernerhoff Inn and Bartlett Inn, in Bartlett, NH; and the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort, in North Conway, NH.

A 2006 vacation to Monhegan Island, ME, spurred her return to “my art” after being away from it for over 30 years. The artists there inspired her to buy some watercolor pencils, paper, and brushes to sketch a rusted, white iron bucket of bright red geraniums at the Monhegan House. A few years later, she began painting classes with Wakefield, MA artist Mary Taggart. As she became more confident and adventurous, she branched out and painted with master pastel artist and national juried oil painter Aline Ordman, oil and acrylic painter Emily Passman, natural science illustrator and watercolor painter Sandy McDermott, contemporary nature painter Elizabeth Awalt, contemporary painter and colorist Martha Wakefield, digital photographer and printmaker Barbara Ford Doyle, painter Ron Krouk, encaustic and cold wax artist Debra Claffey, and cold wax artist Jane Henry Parsons.

Leslie’s lengthy career in marketing and public relations drew on her creativity as it involved writing and visual communications. She earned a BA in communications arts and sciences at Bridgewater State University and pursued master-level studies in marketing at Northeastern University and graphic design classes at Massachusetts College of Art. Leslie always surrounds herself with the arts. She loves music as a listener, concert goer, and singer, as well as theater performances and art museum visits.

Available for commissions.

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Fall Vista: Mount Lafayette (Route 42, Bethlehem, NH), 30 x 15 inches, oil on stretched canvas

Winter Is Coming: Little Haystack (Franconia Notch State Park, NH), 9 x 12 inches, oil on birch panel, en plein air

Feeling Groovy in Vacationland (Greenville, Maine), 10 x 10 inches, oil on stretched canvas

Whatchatalkinbout, 11 X 14 inches on birch panel, mixed media (oil, cold wax, oil-based ink, charcoal, and pigment sticks)

I Love the Blues, 12 x 9 inches on birch panel, mixed media (oil, Pitt oil pencil, cold wax, paper, acrylic, and iridescent powder)

Bridging the Merrimac, oil paint using palette knives, 30 x 24 inches on archival linen panel. Awarded Janice Turner Award for Excellence in Oil Painting, North Shore Arts Association 2022 Exhibit New England show. Note from the artist, “If you dine on the deck at Michael’s Harborside, in Newburyport, MA, this is your view. I started the painting using brushes and quickly discovered that palette knives were best for capturing the rugged and weathered structure by laying down and scrapping back paint. I had many photos of this structure because I admire the shapes and light angles of this view, especially as sunset approaches. I wanted to capture the light that moment.”

Winter Woods: First Snow, mixed media (oil paint, cold wax, iridescent powder, charcoal, collage, oil sticks, and oil pastels), 20 x 16 inches, paper mounted on cradled birch panel, juried into 2023 Rockport Art Association and Museum National Exhibition

Archipelago, mixed media (acrylic and oil paints in metallic, iridescent, and interference colors, cold wax, metallic foils, and powders), 28 x 24 inches on linen panel. Artist note: “This painting did not suggest a subject until it said ‘Done. Fini.” It was created intuitively by applying the mediums in a spontaneous manner, working alongside the Creator without fear or judgement.”

Fort Point Channel Landmark: Boston Wharf Company Sign, 30 x 24 inches oil on cradled birch panel. Artist note: The Boston Wharf Company sign looms over the Fort Point Channel near South Station, in Boston. The company was incorporated in 1836 and built many of the warehouses and manufacturing buildings in the neighborhood that is now the bustling Seaport District.

Fruit Trees in Bloom, mixed media (oil paints cold wax, oil sticks, charcoal, and iridescent mica powder), 16 x 12 inches on paper mounted on cradled birch panel

Melanzana con aglio e pomodoro, oil on 10 x 10 inches stretched canvas

Dog ＆ I (Gloucester, MA), 20 x 16 oil on stretched canvas. Artist note: This painting is based on photo I took of this fishing boat dry docked at Rocky Neck, in Gloucester, MA. The name makes me smile as I imagine the First Mate as a Labrador retriever.

Scenic Vista: Mt. Washington in Spring (Intervale, NH), en plein air 12 x 9 inches, oil on birch panel. Artist note: “This was painted on a rare day when the skies were cloudless, making it perfect to capture a beautiful spring vista in the White Mountains. Climate data gathered from the summit of Mount Washington has earned it the title of second least-sunny spot in the United States. The observatory at the summit routinely records minutes of sunshine in addition to other weather standards, like temperature and wind speed. That data is submitted each hour to the National Weather Service and the National Climatic Data Center. Many a member of the famous and historical White Mountain School Art painted this same view. “

King Tide at the Burnham House (Essex, MA), acrylic on 24 X 24 inches stretched canvas. Artist note: “Smell fried clams? This house sits on a marsh in Essex adjacent to the Cox Reservation. People gaze out at it daily as they eat fried clams at. J.T. Farnham’s. Some people call it Motif 2 as it is painted almost as often as Motif 1 in Rockport, MA.

Desert Fairy Circles, mixed media (oil, cold paint, cold wax, oil pastels, paper, iridescent and charcoal powders, and charcoal), 20 x 16 inches on cradled birch panel. Artist note: “The mediums were used intuitively until it said, “Done.”

Deep Woods, mixed media (oil, cold wax, metallic foil, and Pitt oil pencil), 12 x 12 inches on 7/8 deep cradled birch panel

Vineyard View - Cellardoor Winery (Lincolnville, ME), en plein air oil, 8 x 10 inches on birch panel. Artist note: “My husband and I were camping at Camden Hills State Park, in Camden, ME, when we attended a very fun event at the Cellardoor Winery in the next town north in Lincolnville, ME. It was called Sounds of Summer and featured the band Mod Society. It was a great combination of beautiful weather, live music, dancing, picnic food, and wine. What a wonderful time. The next day I was welcomed by the owner to paint this view.

Early Fall: Scarlet Glasswort Magic, acrylic paint and water-based cold wax, 16 x 12 inches on birch panel. Artist note: “The Parker River Wildlife Refuge, on Plum Island, in Newbury, MA, is a happy place for me. I adore the early fall there when the glasswort growing in patches in the salt marsh turns a brilliant scarlet red. The juxtaposition of the red and the still green marsh grass is intense and exciting.”

Nelson Island Salt Marsh in Early Fall (Rowley, MA), 11 x 14 acrylic on birch panel, en plein air Artist note: “This view is ever changing with each season. This day, the bright colors of fall in New England were just flirtations. This area is part of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge and is a busy place during spring and fall bird migration. A happy place of mine.”

Parker River Salt Marsh in Spring #2 (Byfield, MA), oil, en plein air, on birch panel. Artist note: “ While I was hoping for more warm spring greens, the promise of trees soon in bloom was there. They will soon replace the bleached out and dry vegetation from last year. It is great to slow down to see the changing seasons.”

Mount Washington View from Wildcat Mountain, 8 x 10 inches oil on birch panel, en plein air Artist note: “ Mount Washington painted from the Wildcat Mountain parking lot, Pinkham Notch, NH. Just north of the Appalachian Mountain Club Joe Dodge Lodge. My favorite ski area “in the day.”

MY+55, acrylic on stretched canvas, 18 x 24 x 3/4 inches. Artist note: ““MY+55” was completed in acrylic paint from a photo I took in Jackson, NH. I elected to give the chrome added pop by using iridescent paint and medium. It clearly did the trick to capture this vintage 1955 Ford Fairlane.”

Fall View of Mount Chocorua (Tamworth, NH), oil en plein air, 8 x 16 inches canvas panel. Artist note: “This painting of Mt. Chocorua was done from a field in Tamworth, NH on Route 16. The gorgeous view greets visitors to the Mt. Washington Valley as they drive north. I have a strong connection to this place and first visited Lake Chocorua at the age of two weeks and have been ever since. On this day, my husband climbed the mountain with our 12-year-old Labrador retriever Shady Grady, just as four generations of my family before then. According the the Appalachian Mountain Club, Chocorua is one of the most photographed mountains in the world and one of the most popular climbs in the White Mountains. It was the subject of many of our country's famous plein air painters.”

Christmas Trees at The Rocks (Bethlehem, NH), 8 x 10 inches oil on birch panel, en plein air. Artist note: “I painted this expansive view at The Rocks, in Bethlehem, NH, while my husband was skiing at Cannon Mountain, in Franconia Notch State Park. Every year, there is a cut-you-own tree sale as a fundraiser. After an overnight snow, it was flurrying all day, making for a magical view. It was a challenge to paint this because the light was constantly changing. The Rocks is a property of the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests where a solo art exhibit hung in January and February of 2025.”

Cannon Mountain: Front Four of Five, oil, en plein air, 8 x 10 inches on birch panel. Artist note: “Cannon Mountain: This was painted while my husband was skiing here at Cannon Mountain, in Franconia Notch State Park, NH. I have a great car set up so I can stay cozy and warm while creating.”