About Jimmy Leslie Jimmy’s Resume Jimmy's Images	Jimmy Leslie has always been an artist (walls in his childhood bedroom and desks at school). After receiving his MFA from the New York Academy of Art, Jimmy spent 15 years as a college art professor until 2009 when he became the Resident Artist for Winsor & Newton and Liquitex Artist Materials where he gets to play with a lot of paint and run the Artist Outreach Program. Jimmy’s paintings have been exhibited throughout New Jersey, as well as in New York, Oregon, Texas, Nebraska, Idaho, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. In an effort to continually push boundaries and experiment, Jimmy works with diverse modes of expression in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and mixed media collage. His work has most recently been seen at the Tides Hotel Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, the Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY, the Currier Museum Art Center, NH and the Alfa Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ. In 2012 Jimmy will complete mural size paintings in Frankfurt, Germany for the Paper World Art Material Trade Show as well as in London, England for the grand opening of the new Winsor & Newton headquarters. “It’s important for all artists to continue to experiment in order to grow and I find myself moving in several directions simultaneously as I do so. Landscape provides me with the opportunity to capture places around me both near and far while offering the challenge of dealing with changing light. Figurative work was my first love and I continue to be intrigued by its complexities. Mixed media collage lets me explore the possibilities within the juxtaposition of found objects, while purely abstract paintings allow me to focus solely on the formal properties of paint that excites my senses. But regardless of my subject matter it’s all really just an excuse to put paint on canvas, paper, or any other surface that interests me.”
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