Leslie Guinan creates lightweight concrete sculpture and wall sculpture with various surface textures, treatments and pigments. Pieces incorporate hand-cut glass, found objects, encaustic, handmade paper, concrete stains and/or plant material. Themes are frequently architectural, exploring our relationship to the built environment and the feelings of belonging or alienation that arise from perceptions of place. The work is cast in a unique, hand-made form. Texture is created before the concrete is cast. The concrete incorporates a recycled styrofoam aggregate, making it significantly lighter and locking the styrofoam inside a piece of art, keeping it out of the landfill.

“WinterThicket” depicts the self-subsumed by / returned to nature. Encaustic and graphite on ceramic.