Lesley Punton is a visual artist working across media with an interest in text, photography, film, painting and drawing. Her work is centered around how we experience (and translate our experience of) landscape, and much of her work emerges through the act of walking and spending extended periods within remote places.

Recent works have focussed on aspects of time and duration in relation to place - the intimacy of lived time in contrast with deep time or geological time. Her practice necessitates spending much time "in the field", particularly mountain climbing in Scotland (where she has almost completed a round of the Munro's) and in Europe.

She has shown her work in venues across the UK, and internationally in the USA, China, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, Australia, and has been represented by 511 Gallery (New York City), and ROOM Artspace (London).

In 2013, a monograph on her work, Mountains Without End was published by ROOM Books, and she has since published a number of artist books through the small publishing imprint, Shoebox.

She has worked at the Glasgow School of Art since September 2000, initially as a Lecturer in Fine Art Photography, and since 2013, in the role of Head of the Department of Fine Art Photography. She is also an active member of and contributor to the research group, Reading Landscape at GSA.