Leslie Scott-Lysan

A 2006 vacation to Monhegan Island, ME, spurred Leslie’s return to “my art” after being away from it for over 30 years. The artists there inspired her to buy some watercolor pencils, paper, and brushes to sketch a rusted, white iron bucket of bright red geraniums at the Monhegan House. She first began oil painting at age 11. Her adult studies have been with many New England artists, including Wakefield, MA artist Mary Taggart, master pastel artist and national juried oil painter Aline Ordman, of White River Junction, VT; oil and acrylic painter Emily Passman, of Lexington, MA; natural science illustrator and watercolor painter Sandy McDermott, of Exeter, NH; contemporary nature painter Elizabeth Awalt, of Concord, MA; and encaustic and cold wax artist Debra Claffey, of New Boston, NH.
Leslie works in oil, acrylics, and mixed media, creating en plein air landscapes, studio paintings, and abstract pieces using monoprints, mixed media, her personal photography, and cold wax. Leslie’s work reflects her spiritual connection to nature, creation, and the gratitude she feels when experiencing them. Her awards and national recognitions include:
• Two-month solo exhibit of New Hampshire paintings at the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests (www.forestsociety.org) Conservation Center, in Concord (NH), in 2025.
• North Shore Arts Association Janice Turner Memorial Award for Excellence in Oil Painting, “Bridging the Merrimac,” 2022 Exhibit New England, in Gloucester (MA)
• “Fort Point Channel Landmark: Boston Wharf Company” oil painting juried into the national 20th Frances N. Roddy Open Competition at Concord Art (MA)
• Rockport Art Association and Museum (MA), 2023 National Juried Show, mixed media painting “Winter Woods: First Snow”
• Fall Vista: Mount Lafayette (Route 42, Bethlehem, NH) awarded Best Painting at 2025 Lynnfield Arts Spring Festival and Show
Leslie’s paintings have hung in many other juried art shows, including those with Cambridge Art Association (MA), Newburyport Art Association (MA), Artist Group of Charlestown (MA), Reading Art Association (MA).
Her work has also appeared at: Synergy shows at North Shore Art Association (Gloucester, MA), New England Art Reach exhibit at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital (MA), Beebe Estate shows (Melrose, MA), Rockport Art Association and Museum (MA), Lynnfield Art Guild (MA), Reading Art Association (MA), Wakefield Fine Art Exhibition and Arts Collaborative of Wakefield shows (MA). Additionally, her en plein air oil painting “View of Tuckerman Ravine,” Mt. Washington, NH, was selected for 2017 Concord Art (MA) calendar celebrating bicentennial celebration of birthday of Henry David Thoreau. And an en plein air oil painting of the Pink House, in Newbury, MA, appeared in the April 2016 issue of Northshore Magazine and on WCVB-TV Boston Channel 5 Chronicle. In association with the New Hampshire Plein Air group, her work hung in the “Nature’s Palette Exhibit” at the Wolfeboro Public Library (NH), Governor Wentworth Arts Council and has hung at the Bernerhoff Inn and Bartlett Inn, in Bartlett, NH; and the Red Jacket Mountain View Resort, in North Conway, NH.