Leslie Moore makes linocut relief prints alongside pursuits as a pen-and-ink artist and a poet. She lives and works in Belfast, ME, having followed a career teaching English in numerous places around the world. During college she spent a summer in Perugia, Italy studying print-making and figure drawing at the Accademie di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci. A seed was planted. Since then, she has taken workshops in drawing and printmaking at institutions around New England: the Worcester Art Museum, Zea Mays Printmaking, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and Waterfall Arts. She is a member of the Winterberry Collective, a group of linoleum block printmakers who work together with Holly Berry at her studio in Waldoboro, Maine.
Leslie has shown her prints and drawings in solo and group shows up and down the coast of Maine. She has illustrated four books, including All My Dogs by Bill Henderson, founder of the Pushcart Press. Her art has been featured on book covers and in literary journals and newsletters. She has also published her poetry, often her prints inspire poems or her poems inspire prints. She is currently working on a book of animal poems, prints, and pen-and-ink drawings.
Leslie relishes the interactions between printmaking, drawing, and writing. “Making a relief print is just the opposite of making a pen-and-ink drawing,” she says. “In print making, I carve out what I don’t want in the final image; in drawing, I ink in what I do want. I love the mental gymnastics this reversal sets off in my brain. When the mark making gets too intense, I write.”

Evening Grosbeaks
reduction linocut
12" x 6"
$325

Harvest
linocut
9.5" x 13"
$300

A Big Boar
color woodblock print
13" x 10"
$300

Herding
linocut
5.5" x 12.5"
$300

The Whole World
linocut
8" x 10"
$275

Turkey-Tail Bracket Fungus
linocut
10" x 8"
$275

Black Bear Ambling
linocut
10" x 8"
$250

Tongues Of Flame
linocut
10" x 7"
$250

Persian
linocut
8" x 8"
$250

Bobcat
linocut
8" x 6"
$225

Rabbit Foot
linocut
7" x 5"
$200

Stone Stack In Snow
linocut
7" x 5"
$200

Greener Grass
linocut
7" x 5"
$200

Five Point Star
linocut
7" x 5"
$150

Thinking Inside the Box
linocut
5" x 7"
$150

One Clam Clapping
linocut
7" x 5"
$150

Great Horned Owl
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

Northern Hawk Owl
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

Barred Owl
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

Northern Saw-Whet Owl
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

Pig
linocut
4" x 6"
$75

Connors Nubble
linocut
5" x 5"
$75

How We Built Our House
linocut
7" x 5"
$75

Lamb
linocut
7" x 5"
$75

Duckling
linocut
7" x 5"
$75

Piglet
linocut
7" x 5"
$75

Colt
linocut
7" x 5"
$75

Calf
linocut
7" x 5"
$75

Snowy Owl II
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

Short-eared Owl
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

What Rough Beasts
book
$25

Short-eared Owl
linocut
5" x 5"
$100

Snowy Owl ll
linocut
5" x 5"
$165