On the Farm

Welcome

This is the online gallery and shop for Lesley Long. The work centers on animals: farm creatures, dogs, cats, birds and stranger companions, rendered in acrylics, oils, watercolors, prints, papier-mâché and ceramics.

Browse the collections below. Each gallery holds its own list of individual pieces with titles such as Barks Too Much, Baby Cat, Black Swan, Angel Flies Through the Sky of Golden Stars and Bearded Pig.

Please contact me with any questions or opportunities!Lesley Long

Lesley Long's online gallery and shop gathers work centered on animals: farm creatures, dogs, cats, birds and a cast of stranger companions. The pieces span acrylics, oils, watercolors, prints, papier-mâché and ceramic forms, so browsing feels like moving through several related rooms rather than a single unified display. Featured galleries include On the Farm, Day of the Dead, The Latest Suspects, Doggie Style, Oink and Some Cats, each one a distinct collection of images and objects. Animal-themed paintings anchor the site, while the ceramics, masks and works on paper sections give the same subject matter a more tactile, sculptural edge.

The On the Farm gallery is the centerpiece of the collection, devoted to the ordinary residents of a working farm. Bulls, cows, ducks, goats, pigs, roosters and sheep appear as individual subjects rather than as background detail, each one given the kind of attention usually reserved for a portrait. Horses, mice, rabbits and turtles join the roster alongside more unusual visitors such as giraffes and a wolf. The animals are rendered with a directness that suits the utilitarian, gallery-like presentation of the site, where images sit plainly against a dark backdrop with little ornamentation between the viewer and the work itself.

Beyond the farm grouping, several galleries explore animal subjects through a more playful or thematic lens. Day of the Dead brings a festive skeleton-and-creature sensibility to familiar animals, while The Latest Suspects treats its subjects as if they were characters in a lineup. Doggie Style focuses squarely on dogs, and Oink dedicates itself to pigs. Some Cats gathers feline works, and the broader Paintings gallery collects pieces that fall outside the named groupings. Running through all of them is the same sustained attention to animals as individuals, rendered in acrylics, oils and watercolors with an emphasis on character, expression and the small details that make each creature recognizable.

The Media section extends the animal theme into three-dimensional and mixed-media work. Ceramics cover the functional and sculptural end of the practice, with tiles, masks and papier-mâché forms appearing alongside the paintings and drawings. Works on paper rounds out the media offerings, adding a lighter, more immediate quality to the overall body of work. Because the shop brings all of these categories together, the site reads as a single studio practice documented comprehensively: the same subject matter revisited in paint, clay, paper and mask, with the animals serving as the constant thread linking every format and technique.

The site's design is deliberately spare and document-like. A near-black background meets off-white and cream text blocks, with light gray placeholders standing in for imagery and small muted teal accents marking minor icons. Typography is a plain sans-serif system stack, set in a wide, letter-spaced uppercase logotype for the hero title and in smaller, tightly-leaded regular weight for the body copy. Paragraphs run long and unbroken with minimal spacing between them, and there are no rounded corners, shadows or decorative flourishes anywhere. The single bordered panel framing the hero reads like a classic plaque, reinforcing the gallery atmosphere.

Rather than smoothing the edges of the work, that stark presentation lets the images and objects carry the emphasis. The hierarchy is built from contrast and whitespace instead of lines, dividers or ornament, so the eye moves from the framed title into the descriptive text and then into the collection sections without distraction. Small components, such as the modest share control, stay flat and undecorated in keeping with the overall restraint. It is an aesthetic choice that suits an artist-run gallery and shop: raw, functional and utilitarian, closer to a well-organized archive than to a polished commercial storefront.

Browsing the site means moving between subject-based groupings rather than following a conventional retail path. Farm animals, dogs, cats, birds and wild creatures each occupy their own space, and the media categories offer an alternate route through the same material. Visitors arriving from search may land directly inside a specific gallery, which is why the site includes a welcome section introducing it as the online gallery and shop for Lesley Long and summarizing the animal-centered focus of the work. From there, the full range of paintings, ceramics, masks, tiles, papier-mâché and works on paper is only a few clicks away.

Featured galleries

Collections by theme and medium

Featured themes include Day of the Dead, The Latest Suspects, Oink, On the Farm, Some Cats and Doggie Style.

About the artist

Growing up in the Midwest was when Lesley first started to explore painting. Although she attended college and then the School of the Art Institute of Chicago near home, she moved around over the years, living in Italy and in Bellingham, Washington, and now resides in New Mexico.

She is a versatile artist who works in acrylics, oils, watercolors, prints, papier-mâché and ceramics, and her work has been inspired by Chagall and Gauguin. Read more in the About page.