LESLIE MOORE
Printmaking
Leslie Moore is a printmaker and a poet whose subject is often animals. Her art rises from chance encounters in the natural world—the aria of a catbird, the swoop of an osprey, the antics of a crow. She makes linoleum block prints, practicing the reduction method, cutting a single block and printing a succession of colors. It’s sometimes called kamikaze printmaking, because the block is carved down to almost nothing by the end of the print run. No backtracking. No do-overs. She is the author/artist of Grackledom: Poetry/Prints/PenPets Drawings (Littoral Books, 2023) and What Rough Beasts: Poetry/Prints (Littoral Books, 2021) She lives in Belfast and works in a printmaking studio in her backyard.
