Hi, I’m Leslie.
Liesel B. came about after years of paying little attention to being creative for creativity’s sake.
I like people, I like nature, I like trying to make the world a better place. Art can connect. I hope this art makes you happy, sparks love for fellow humans in you, and urges you to appreciate our planet.
Leslie Bartlebaugh is a landscape architect and artist in Raleigh, NC. With a past studying plants and ecosystems, she worked to observe and understand the intricacies and connections within the natural world but realized the element of people and their relationships was missing. Embracing landscape architecture and art allowed her to feed her desire to make the world a better place and enhance connections between nature and people and between people and each other. She hopes her art can improve this world a little if it sparks joy in anyone else or inspires others to have empathy and compassion for the earth and for each other.
Bartlebaugh finds inspiration and influence from nature, people and their interactions, and from artists that capture such in bold, unexpected forms, techniques, and media. Starting out using fineliners, she has since committed strongly to more traditional art techniques primarily including dip pens and linoleum and block printing techniques as the inky and slightly unpredictable output of these media feels relatable and human.