I am Lesley Stedmon and I am a Watercolour and acrylic Artist based on Vancouver island, Canada. 

I started painting bodies the way you might draw a favorite place from memory. Not posed. Not perfected. Just close — the way you see your own body when you’re resting, bathing, lying in the sun. These little maps are made with watercolor that likes to wander, and then I trace them back with fine gold or brown lines. A bit like mapping hills and valleys. A bit like mending with gold. I paint torsos — soft bellies, full breasts, the curve where leg meets hip — because these are places we’re often asked to tuck away or smooth out. I wanted to give them a little reverence instead.

Gold shows up in most of them. Not to be fancy, but to say: this part matters. This part is worthy of light.

If you see yourself in them, that’s the point.

They’re not painted to be looked at. They’re painted to feel like coming home.

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Welcome, Home freinds.