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Carol Horgan Lesher (PA,b 1962) oil painting

Sold for $340 at Broward Auction Gallery LLC on Jun 14, 2026.

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ARTIST: Carol Horgan Lesher (Pennsylvania, born 1962) TITLE: Cityscape - Shadow Lane YEAR: 2002 MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Some faint scratches by the right edge. No visible inpaint under UV light. Wear to frame. ART SIZE: 36 x 24 inches / 91 x 60 cm FRAME SIZE: 41 x 29 inches / 104 x 73 cm SIGNATURE: lower right LOCATION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 156030 US SHIPPING: $139 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: My process is intuitive, based on direct response to the beauty in the natural world that surrounds me. I confront the persistence of inner turmoil: anxiety, fear, mortality. I look to the wider world as a calming force, for inspiration I can draw within, internalize and then express onto the canvas. In doing so, I convert uncertainty into order.Painting centers me. The act of creating opens up renewed possibilities and infinities of feeling. It's my way of tapping into something greater than myself and translating feeling into form.My work interrogates the balance between representation and abstraction. I'm attracted to rhythms of nature, and inspired by simplicity of form. My paintings are primarily landscapes and, every so often, interpretations of the sea. Environments refracted, filtered through soft light and flattened color. Modern, yet grounded in observation and emotion, they encompass fields of grain and fields of vision; oceans of deep water and oceans of color.I trace lineaments of trees and surf, horizons, interstices of space, liminal breaths between ground and sky. I explore the structure and order that resides in nature. In a sense, I tell stories with my brush. Not complex narrative tapestries, but elemental stories, manifestations of collective knowledge and a sense of deep, evolutionary time.My process is an accumulation of moments, each with their attendant small excitements. I map out relationships and boundaries; I add layers; I subtract and simplify. Line and color, shape and form, texture and physicality: these qualities merge in the gestures of my brushwork. I observe the tactile surfaces of my paintings, play with rhythms, with harmony and space. As I work, the surface ebbs and evolves, then settles, like a sea after a storm.Though my process is instinctual and embodied, it's designed to engender shape and structure. I draw on movement and energy'making marks, moving paint'to create work that, with patience and a bit of luck, finally resonates.As my paintings evolve, beauty emerges from the tensions inherent in this process.

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