"Botanicals Revisited" featuring works by Lesley Riley - Art Gallery Exhibit

Name: "Botanicals Revisited" featuring works by Lesley Riley - Art Gallery Exhibit
Start: 2025-08-25T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 521 Main St, Waynesboro, VA, United States, Virginia 22980

Schedule

Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

521 Main St, Waynesboro, VA, United States, Virginia 22980 | Waynesboro, VA

Stop by our Exhibit Art Gallery (upstairs here at the Wayne Theatre) to experience "Botanicals Revisited" featuring works by Lesley Riley. This beautiful exhibit runs from Aug. 25 until Nov. 16, 2025 and you simply must experience it for yourself.
ABOUT OUR EXHIBIT ART GALLERY:
Open to the Public
- Monday: 1pm - 9 pm
- Tuesday & Thursday: 10am - 2pm
- 1 hour before and during all performances (access limited to exhibit gallery for non-ticket holders)
- Other days and times are available by appointment.
Call 540-943-9999 to schedule.
To purchase artwork, please inquire at the Wayne Theatre Box Office. Purchased artwork will be released upon the close of the exhibit.
ABOUT THIS EXHIBIT:
Runs Aug. 25, 2025 - Nov. 16, 2025
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I am a modern alchemist, transforming light, pigment, and plant into visual poetry. In Botanicals Revisited, I bridge centuries, reawakening the 19th-century cyanotype process with the vision of a 21st-century artist. My mountaintop walks yield more than leaves—they offer whispers from the natural world, which I gather, print, and layer into richly evocative works that blur the boundaries between painting, photography, and printmaking.
My process begins without a camera, using sunlight, chemistry, and the serendipity of the wet cyanotype technique. From this elemental base, I add veils of digital pigment, pattern, and color—drawn from my own paintings and photographs—infusing each piece with a depth that feels both contemporary and timeless. The compositions are not only about nature; they are nature remembered, reimagined, and resurrected in vibrant, unexpected hues.
These aren’t merely botanical studies—they are soulful conversations with impermanence and memory. Like pressed flowers in an old book, they hold emotion, story, and the passing of seasons. Large in scale yet deeply intimate, I invite you to stand still, look closer, and lose yourself in the layered beauty of the ephemeral made eternal.
An award-winning artist, author, and longtime mentor for creative souls, I live and work on the Blue Ridge/Appalachian mountain range in Cascade, Maryland, where the view—and the muse—are ever-changing.