January - March 2006

We are proud to present a joint exhibition of

Sue Allen • Japanese Lantern Prints

& Leslie Cheney-Parr • Lino Reduction Prints and Watercolors.

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  Leslie Cheney Parr is an artist living in the Pacific Northwest. She received her Master’s of Art from U.C. Berkeley, studying with Erle Loran, Robert Hartman, George Miyasaki, and the late Elmer Bischoff. She has continued her studies with Carrie Burns Brown, Anne Pierce, Linda Doll, Marie MacDonnell Roberts, Alex Powers, Gerald Brommer, Tom Hill, Jane Burnham, Ben Kudo and the late Richard Yip. She has taught adults art for 17 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1994 she and her husband moved to the Portland Metro area. Presently she teaches watercolor at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon.
     Leslie’s work can be found in several corporate art collections in California, notably the collections of Summit Hospital in Oakland, the First Boston Corporation of San Francisco, at Mudd’s Garden Restaurant in San Ramon, and in Oregon at Menucha in the Columbia River Gorge. Her works are also in private collections throughout the United States and most recently in Europe. Her works are characterized as realistic with saturated color and interesting vantage points. As an avid sketcher, she loves to paint and sketch on location; most of her work is done from her sketches.
     She continues to paint and exhibit her watercolors, etchings and drawings but now her venues are the Northwest. She is a signature member of the California Watercolor Association, and is a member of Print Arts North West. Presently her work is being represented in the Portland area at the Rental Sales Gallery at the Portland Art Museum, Carnegie Gallery in Oregon City, and White Bird Gallery in Cannon Beach. She owns and operates a full–service art studio in Sandy, OR.