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Summer Storm Clouds oil on canvas 37 x 46

Artist Biography:

Lese Corrigan was born in Charleston and learned at age ten that you could look at something and draw it. She earned her liberal arts degree in French and Philosophy, then spent two years in Europe where she trained her eye and soul for the world of art. Corrigan fully immersed herself in the visual arts in the late 1980s. Her artwork is in collections in the United States, France, Great Britain and Japan. One highlight in her career is a painting commission by Coca Cola that was presented to Barbara Bush.

Corrigan’s paintings have been featured in numerous poster awards, magazines, and on television. She was the poster artist for the Charleston Cup Steeplechase (2003) and the Queen City Classic Horse Show in Charlotte, NC (2005). Turner South Network’s 3-Day Weekend Charleston episode in 2005 featured her paintings and a short documentary film was produced by Ros Smith that focused on her painting process. In 2006, a painting by Corrigan titled “Cultured Pomegranates” was selected for the cover for a book of poetry titled Keep and Give Away by Susan Myers and her work was also included in the Southern Living Idea House, Daniel Island.

Lese Corrigan has been very active in the arts community of Charleston for many years. She has taught numerous classes at the Gibbes Museum and was the Artist in Residence for the Gibbes Museum Poets and Painters program in 2005. Her gallery on Queen Street in downtown Charleston represents the work of seventeen other contemporary artists and is a member of the Charleston Fine Art Dealers’ Association of 2007.

Lese Corrigan

Charleston

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About the Work:

As an oil painter, Lese Corrigan paints portraits and landscapes with an interest in the playful possibilities in hues of light. Corrigan also works in other media - linocuts, photography and clay sculpture. She is inspired by impressionism, post-impressionism and abstract expressionism. Her textured, colorful canvasses express the energy of life, whether it be in a portrait (human or animal), a still life, a landscape or the aging architecture at home or abroad. Corrigan searches for truth and beauty as described in the writings from St. Augustine, John Ruskin and Robert Henri. Believing the need to create is as primary as seeking food, her work is the outlet for information and sensations gathered.