In 1920 Lesley Brown moved with her parents and siblings to the United States where she entered the Boston School of Fine Arts. The succeeding years were filled with marriage to Paul Brown, rearing a family, a move to New Hampshire, and studies with Eliot O'Hara Thurn at East Gloucester, Massachusetts. In March, 1945, Lesley moved to Taos, New Mexico since her marriage to Paul Brown ended and she was attracted to the art culture there. She came along with her children, Malcolm, Kristina, Bruce and Erik to Taos, New Mexico. When the Taos Art Association was founded in 1952, she was one of the original members, and she was an exhibitor in the first show of the Stables Gallery April 8, 1954. Since that time, Lesley has participated in numerous traveling shows throughout the Southwest United States and Mexico. Marian Miller of the Phoenix Gazette described her work: "a sweeping feeling of vitality...freely, broadly stroked...deep reds against subtle greens with the relief of autumn trees". Source: "Stables Gallery: Representing Taos Resident Artists". Stables Gallery, 1977, New Mexico. Her obituary headline in the Taos News on March 14, 1991, page 31, written by Curtis Anderson read: "Painter, Poet and Taos Art Association founder dies at 90."
In 1920 Lesley Brown moved with her parents and siblings to the United States where she entered the Boston School of Fine Arts. The succeeding years were filled with marriage to Paul Brown, rearing a family, a move to New Hampshire, and studies with Eliot O'Hara Thurn at East Gloucester, Massachusetts. In March, 1945, Lesley moved to Taos, New Mexico since her marriage to Paul Brown ended and she was attracted to the art culture there. She came along with her children, Malcolm, Kristina, Bruce and Erik to Taos, New Mexico. When the Taos Art Association was founded in 1952, she was one of the original members, and she was an exhibitor in the first show of the Stables Gallery April 8, 1954. Since that time, Lesley has participated in numerous traveling shows throughout the Southwest United States and Mexico. Marian Miller of the Phoenix Gazette described her work: "a sweeping feeling of vitality...freely, broadly stroked...deep reds against subtle greens with the relief of autumn trees". Source: "Stables Gallery: Representing Taos Resident Artists". Stables Gallery, 1977, New Mexico. Her obituary headline in the Taos News on March 14, 1991, page 31, written by Curtis Anderson read: "Painter, Poet and Taos Art Association founder dies at 90."
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