Salida artist brings big ‘force, energy, color’
by Terri Fleming, Special to The Mountain MailFebruary 7, 2023 Leslie Jorgensen’s vibrant, pulsating painting style was born, in real terms, on the side of a mountain. The Salida artist began to see the landscape anew in 2017 on a backcountry ski trip at an 11,650-foot-high 10th Mountain
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Art Murals Project Complete
Leslie’s Paintings in the Vectra Bank Corporate Center Leslie completed four large-scale paintings for the new Vectra Bank Corporate Headquarters building in Denver, CO. The paintings are on the walls surrounding the corporate conference rooms and represent the four seasons in colorado as
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Anatomy of a Mural Project
I recently finished 4 paintings for Vectra Bank’s new Corporate Center in the Denver Tech Center at Belleview Station and I-25. Thanks to the efforts of art consultants Liz Graham and Jennifer Perlow, I had the good fortune to not only participate in this project but to visit this
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Monarch Mountain Snowboard Show
I recently participated in the Monarch Mountain Snowboard Show “Freeride”. Our hometown ski area is a great little gem and they reached out to our artist community to help them repurpose some old snowboards from their rental fleet. The result was a series of snowboards that have
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Live Painting Performance Link
What an amazing night we had at the studio gallery in Salida on July 27! We had a live local audience and the incredible Tiffany Christopher to play her music while I created a 40×30″ painting of the Arkansas River. Money raised benefits Central Colorado Conservancy. The painting
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Vectra Bank Commissions Leslie Jorgensen to Create Art for New Corporate Center
Leslie is working on a series of paintings for Vectra Bank’s new corporate center at I-25 and Belleview Station in Denver. The nine-story, mixed-use building, is scheduled to open in December 2022. Beyond four floors of office space and four floors of parking, the Vectra Corporate Center will
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