Lesa Chittenden Lim

Award-winning artist Lesa Chittenden Lim uses her creative spirit to compose images that reflect the profound beauty of nature and our earth.  Her work is inspired by an emotional response to nature. Rather than recording an exact external reality, she expresses the inner sensations caused by her visual perceptions, calmness, serenity, beauty, awe to name a few. In a recent review Andrew Mangravite of the Broad Street Review wrote, “she deals in a sort of visual perfume..…a harmony of colors. I would say George Inness meets Asian art… lovers of landscape art should acquaint themselves with her vision.”

After a successful career in corporate America, managing a $500 million division of a Fortune 100 company, Chittenden Lim returned to her first love and received a Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2005.

She works in Philadelphia and northern Michigan. A recipient of many distinguished awards, including the Academy’s Thouron and Catherine Grant Memorial prize, her work appears in the Dow Chemical, University of Michigan Ross School and Pennsylvania Power & Light  collections, as well as numerous private collections. Her paintings have been featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer. She regularly shows her work in Philadelphia and Michigan. Lesa works at the Pennsylvania Academy of  the Fine Arts  in the printmaking department.

See a review of her November 2011 show here.