Leslie Jorgenson
Leslie grew up in Florida, but when she moved to Denver, Colorado she fell in love with the mountains.
She quickly came to love skiing, taking full advantage of the resort areas in Colorado. But a few years ago, the call of the backcountry became irresistible, leading her to explore new mountain adventures on the road less travelled.
“I wanted to go farther into nature,” says Leslie. “My husband and I did our AIARE AVI 1 avalanche training and after a few hut trips, we were hooked!”
Working as an abstract painter, Leslie found her new passion infusing her art and something cool happened.
The mountains, the wind and the cold had become forces that demanded to be expressed through her work. “I love what the wild places have done to me and to my art,” says Leslie. “I merged my abstract techniques with a lively, gestural painting of my experiences in the mountains. I wanted to take the kind of risks with my subject matter that I do on the slopes.”
“This series reflects not just my journeys into the backcountry, but also the forces of nature and the wonder of something so infinitely greater than myself,” says Leslie, “The backcountry represents adventure, risk and a test of my own strength,” says Leslie. “In our overly-mechanized world, the fact that such large, wild, forceful places exist is both inspiring and comforting.”
