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    About

    In 2014, after a 30+ year career in communications, I established the independent design and make business 'Leslie & Rosie.' Designing and screen printing small runs of fabric and cards, I traded through small independent retailers and makers markets. During COVID I started to pursue a more artistic process, moving away from designing to developing individual artworks. My work reflects what I see around me and issues that are important to me. I'm a mIxed-media artist based in Fife combining text, screen printing, stitching, mark making and drawing. I am a member of Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop and exhibit regularly with them.

  • BODYWORKS

    An exhibition exploring marks on women's bodies.

    Artists: Lesley Ratomska, Isabell Buenz, Carol Mason, Caroline McGonigal and writer and poet Linda Menzies

    This exhibition has now ended. If you are interested in showing this work please get in touch via my Facebook or Instagram pages.

    Woman I, II and III
    Artists
    Notes of strength by Caroline
    Wanted Unwanted (in progress)
    Both sides now
    Woman I, II and III
    Wounds I,II, III, IV and V
    Comments Book
    Three Marys (lament)
    That's Me (work in progress)
    Concealed stains
    Women's First Aid Kit
    Three Marys (spidery growth)
    Kintsugi (work in progress)
    Double X (work in progress)
    Three Marys

  • Gallery

    Women I, II and III
    Calm
    Freedom
    That's my kind of woman
    Cumulus
    Water
    Expectation
    Consciously Rising exhibition
    At the end of the garden
    Dunfermline Linen Co
    Consciously Rising

  • Exhibitions

    Upcoming exhibitions

    Art Moves Fife: showcase

    The Boilerhouse, St Andrews Botanic Gardens

    Friday 29th November, Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December 2024

    Opening hours: 10am to 4pm

    Bodyworks

    Members Gallery, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh

    Tuesday 21st January to Thursday 23rd January 2025

    This exhibition is in a restricted area of the parliament building. Access is only available to MSPs and staff.

    Past exhibitions

    BODYWORKS

    The Community Gallery, Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, 7 Abbot Street, Dunfermline KY11 7ND
    7 October until 30 December 2023

    A thought-provoking exhibition by a group of four artists and a writer exploring the feelings which women have about the marks on their bodies. The works on display include paintings, fabric sculptures, constructed textiles, artists’ books and poems.

    Click here for further information.
    Artists taking part are Lesley Ratomska, Carol Mason , Isabell Buenz , Caroline McGonigal and writer and poet Linda
    Menzies.

     

     

    SOUTH WEST SCOTLAND PRINTMAKERS WINTER EXHIBITION 2023

    For further information click here

    Gallery 2, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries DG1 1JQ

    18 November - 22 December 2023

    Falling Up Living in Art

    A group show of several artists works which were featured in an outdoor intervention at Calais Woods, Dunfermline earlier in the year. The artworks are now being displayed in a gallery setting.

    My work includes slate pieces and a large wall-hanging based on a 3D paper sculpture inspired by the environment surrounding Wooers Alley, Dunfermline - the location of the family home of Amelia, Noel and Waller Paton.

     

    The Community Gallery, Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

    15 May to 15 July 2023

     

    Celebrating 40 years of printmaking in Fife

    A group show , To celebrate the workshops 40th anniversary members were invited to respond to the title 'Big Sky' and produce an edition of five prints on paper 560mm x 760mm (portrait.} My response was 'Cumulus' inspired by childhood memories of family holidays in Morayshare and the seemingly endless blue summer skies.

     

    Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline

    Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.

    2 March to 30 April 2023

    Good Impressions

    A group show of contemporary printmaking by members of Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop

    Fifespace Gallery, Rothes Halls, Glenrothes

    until 4 March 2023

    Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm. Closed Sunday

    Voices of Textiles

    An online exhibition curated by The University of Edinburgh about using your voice through textiles.

    My work is part of the 'Community and Conversation' section, a social media campaign centred on the idea of community. Rrunning, primarily on Instagram at @voices_of_textiles, using the hashtag #craftyourvoiceVofT

     

    Available to view online at https://exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/voices-of-textiles

    Invited Artists, Pittenweem Arts Festival 2022

    A group show of contemporary printmaking by members of Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop

    August 2022

    Consciously Rising: the personal is political

    A collection of riso prints by three women artists myself, F and Doreen, responding to group discussion on the statement 'The personal is political.' Curated by The Glasgow School of Art PhD student Helen de Main.

    Click on this link to read Holly H's blog post about the exhibition : https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2022/01/24/consciously-rising-blog/

     

    The Community Gallery, Dunermline Carnegie Library & Galleries, Abbot Street, Dunfermline

    March to May 2022

     

    Glasgow Women's Library, Landressy Street, Glasgow

    November 2021 to February 2022

     

    This exhibition is available to researchers and other interested parties by contacting the Archive Dept at Glasgow Women's Library

    Print 21

    A group show of contemporary printmaking by members of Fife Dunfermline Printmakers Workshop

    The Community Gallery, Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

    November 2021 to February 2022

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