Lesley Trussler is a Bristol based painter and printmaker who works on still life subjects. This might be a family memento, something collected from travels or picked up in a junk shop, a vase of flowers or a found object. She enjoys giving a focus and gravitas to the everyday, mundane and temporary ephemera of our lives.
Her casual and simple still life set ups allow her to experiment with the paint, working mostly Alla Prima and directly from the subject, to force an immediacy of decision making and mark making. Loose brush work simplifies and abstracts the shapes and shadows of the set up.
