Lezli was born and raised on an isolated wilderness island in Southeastern Alaska where, as luck would have it, the average annual rainfall was sixteen feet a year.

This physical isolation coupled with her own psychological isolation due to acute shyness as well as a strong dislike for getting wet led her to spend thousands of hours arranging and rearranging objects in her room.

Things continued this way until she quite arbitrarily took an art class in high school. There she discovered that she could draw and that she rather liked drawing…and that if she could draw then she could be as silent and socially awkward as she was inclined to be, and it was OK.

Following high school she spent a year in college as an art major. But, being a rudderless person she gave up college in favor of various mind numbing jobs that barely kept her afloat financially but allowed her time to explore the art universe.

Even while helping to start Raven’s Brew Coffee, Inc. and picture framing part-time, circumstances arranged themselves in such a way that, eventually, Lezli was able to amass enough paintings for an exhibit and then another exhibit and so on until she was painting full time. Then the economy went to hell.

So back to school she went. This time she and took special pains to choose something she had absolutely no interest in: computer programming. As it turned out, she rather liked programming, but it couldn't hold a candle to graphic design and web design. To this day she continues to paint and does a graphic/web design job now and then for the money as well as the pleasure of arranging elements on a page.

at the alaska state museum

in addition to painting Lezli has created many objects such as this 3 foot high candle stick

©2004 Hall Anderson Photography