Leslie Giuliani is an American contemporary artist. Her work combines textiles, encaustic, oil painting, and printmaking. She is a core support Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints and has more than 20 years of teaching experience.
Leslie’s recent works have focused on interpreting her original drawings into stitchable digitized embroidery files. These she sews, with colorful thread combinations as her palette, onto an archival microfiber paper she has painted and printed with encaustic and oil paint. To the colorful, painted embroidered images, she stitches down appliquéd shapes cut from other paintings and prints, finally adding decorative machine stitching accents and sequins. The imagery can be quirky, surrealistic, and sometimes humorous.
Leslie received her bachelor’s degree in fine art from the University of Delaware, with further studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Her work is represented in collections of the Housatonic Museum of Art, the State of Connecticut, and private collections. She was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism for Craft, and a presenter at the annual International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
