Leslie Golden
Art Teachers
Alton S. Tobey
Leslie Wilson
Randy Sexton,
Carol Tarzier,
Gary Bergren
Shanna Kunz
Represented at the following Galleries:
Benicia Plein Air Gallery - Benicia
JOR Gallery - Clayton
Main Street Arts Gallery - Martinez
Valley Arts Gallery - Walnut Creek
Leslie is currently honing her oil painting skills on the quintessential California landscapes with rolling hills, Oak trees, Mt. Diablo, and seascapes. She has a deep appreciation for the natural environment and built elements that evoke the memory of time gone by and evoke a sense of place. She is interested in showing the movement that bring a painting to life.
Growing up in the East Coast, she spent many hours drawing the form and branches of grand trees outside her home window. Leslie was given her first oil painting set at 12 years old and studied oil painting after school with Alton S. Tobey, an internationally renowned painter and illustrator.
Leslie then studied fine arts for two years at the college level focusing on drawing, oil painting, ceramics, and art history. She transferred from the fine arts to study Landscape Architecture, to find the biggest canvas she could find!
Leslie graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Environmental Design, Landscape Architectural major and a Master of Architecture. For over two decades, her professional practice specialized in large scale urban design projects for cities, counties, and corporate clients. She enjoyed infusing her projects with a unique sense of place.
After retirement from her professional career in Landscape Architecture, she studied watercolor with Leslie Wilson for five years. Leslie returned to oil painting and has studied with well know oil painters for two years; Randy Sexton, Leslie Tarzier, Gary Bergren and Shanna Kunz.
Awards
First Place 1966 New Rochelle NY Paint Out Competition, in the under 18-year-old division Ms. Golden was 12 years old when she completed an oil painting of three trees, Fall, Winter and Spring on 24” x 36” canvas.
Associations and Galleries
ADAS Alamo Danville Artist’s Society
Lamorinda Arts Council
Benicia Plein Air Gallery
Valley Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek
Shows
Solo Show at Wilder Art Center June 2024
Solo Show at Wilder Art Center July 2024
Primavera Danville ADAS April 2024
Fall Collection at Valley Arts Gallery 2024
www.LeslieGoldenArt.com Oil and Watercolor Paintings
www.LeslieGoldenLA.com Residential Landscape Architectural Work
www.LeslieGolden.com Corporate Landscape and Urban Design Work
Send a message to L-Golden@comcast.net or call 510.589.5580
Work Experience
1.1.1989 – 11.11.2016
Golden Associates
Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning
Principal
Education
1972-1974
SUNY at New Paltz
Art Major
1974-1976
UC Berkeley
BA Enviromental Design
Landscape Architecture Major
1983-1988
UC Berkeley
Masters of Architecture