Leslie Lovejoy has studied and worked with Fine Arts since her youth. After studying Fine Arts at Colorado State University, she traveled to Europe, the Middle East and the Far East, illustrating her way around the world for almost ten years.

She has lived in Steamboat Springs for 38 years working here as a graphic artist while using her skills as an artist in all of her work. Many of her pieces are “plein art” style, painted while on her frequent hikes, canoes and skiing in the backcountry.

Leslie’s love of winter backcountry and skiing has been expressed not only through her art but also through her involvement with the preservation of these precious “quiet-use” areas on our public lands, as the director of the Friends of the Routt Backcountry, a chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club and Winter Wildlands Alliance. The dedicated work of this group of local volunteers resulted in one of the first USFS designations of a winter nonmotorized use area of almost 25,000 acres on the Routt National Forest.

Each of her pieces tells a story, capturing a historical moment, historical characters, structures or events.