LESLEY BIRCH’s paintings stem from memories and sketches of time spent in Scotland, Ireland and Cornwall. She is partial to ‘dramatic skies, lilac hills and rugged coasts’ – painting the weather as much as the landscape in expressive brush strokes ~ proclaiming her great joy in the flow of paint. A professional musician before she made a career as a painter, Lesley likens the sensation of mark making and colour combining to ‘that exciting moment when materiality and emotion meet, the same moment as the resolution of a hanging chord.’ She lives in York and is a member of the Society of Scottish Artists.