Editorial · Summer 2026
Gallery feature — Altrincham Today
An interview on the journey from radiography to fine art, portraiture, and the work currently underway in the studio.
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About the artist
Texture as emotion — built, not just painted.
Retired diagnostic radiographer, lecturer and researcher — now sculpting paint and pastel into abstract florals and expressive portraits.
Her story
From x-rays to abstract florals.
Leslie Robinson creates abstract florals and portraits using texture as part of the story. Working in pastel and acrylic, she builds and sculpts the surface so each piece feels layered, alive, and full of movement.
Bright colour plays a leading role — every painting is intended to feel joyful, expressive and deeply tactile. Lots of artists talk about colour and texture; Leslie's edge is more specific: she sculpts paint and pastel into floral and human forms.
Before turning to painting full-time, Leslie spent her career as a diagnostic radiographer, university lecturer and researcher. She retired in 2018 and returned to art — something she'd loved at school but had been discouraged from pursuing as a career.
Artist statement
“My work sits at the intersection of abstract florals, expressive portraits, sculptural texture and bold, luminous colour — feminine, but contemporary.”
The first collection
Radiography, meet art.
One of Leslie's first bodies of work paired medical imagery with abstract studies of the human form — a quiet reminder to radiographers that there is always a person behind the x-ray.
The series has been featured across professional journals, with paintings now held by Tameside General Hospital and the Liverpool School of Health Sciences. A long-form essay on the project lives on Leslie's earlier site and may move across to this one in time.
Press: RAD Magazine reader profile.
A short timeline
Recent milestones.
- 2018
Retires from a career as a diagnostic radiographer, university lecturer and researcher, and picks up a paintbrush again.
- 2020
Completes Radiography Meets Art — paintings combining medical imagery with the human form, reminding radiographers of the people behind the x-rays.
- 2021
Work from the Radiography series acquired by Tameside General Hospital and the Liverpool School of Health Sciences.
- 2022
Runner-up in the Altrincham Society of Artists' Portrait Prize; work published in SSA Paint & Create magazine.
- 2024
Co-leads the ASA portrait group and helps publish its first collection of members' portraits.
- 2025
Invited to teach at the Altrincham Society of Artists and Sale Moor Art Club; solo exhibition of abstract florals at Armenique Café, Gatley.
Studying & supporting
A lifelong learner, painting with purpose.
A lifelong learner
Always studying, always making.
Leslie continues to enrol on local, national and international courses, learning alongside artists whose work she admires.
Louis SmithPaul Talbot-GreavesLouise FletcherCharla MaarschalkKara BullockGabriel Lipper
Painting with purpose
Charities supported.
A portion of sales has, over the years, gone to causes close to Leslie and her collectors:
- —The Society of Radiographers' Benevolent Fund
- —Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
- —Cancer Support Yorkshire
- —Rowley Projects
- —Eccles Community Choir
- —William Byrd Singers
- —PSP & CBD Foundation
- —The Macular Society
- —Re-engage
- —Kennedy Street Recovery
Featured · Summer 2026
Altrincham Today — Gallery
A long-read interview in the summer print issue of Altrincham Today, covering the move from a career in diagnostic radiography into painting, the Radiography Meets Art series, and the portrait work taking shape in the studio this year.
Read the article (PDF) →Editorial
Reader Profile — RAD Magazine
Featured profile on Leslie's journey from radiography to fine art.
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Tameside General Hospital · Liverpool School of Health Sciences
Paintings from the Radiography series held in permanent display.
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