Lez Dor is a full-time artist with a formal approach to painting - an influence of her early training by well-known Eastern Cape artists Neil Rodger, Hillary Graham, Prof. Robert Brooks, and more recently, Dr Greg Kerr.

She prefers large format, especially when working on her favourite subject matter - man's bent for not merely passing through, but leaving a trail of damage and destruction - using the landscape as the vehicle for exploration and observation. She served two years as Chair of the Nelson Mandela Bay Branch of the Wildlife & Environment Society of South Africa, WESSA (www.wessa.org.za).

Lez also has an interest in the artist as neutral observer and record keeper,and regarded our duty and failure as custodians of our environment as important subject matter long before it became the public issue it is today. She was one of fifteen South Africans chosen to participate in the British Council's Interaction leadership course for 2007/08, and in 2009 completed her BTech Fine Art degree at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, where her area of interest was the complex relationship between humans and land. In 2012 she also gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Education through Unisa.

She served a year as Chairman of the Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts. She was a South African finalist in the Windsor & Newton Millennium competition, with the painting "One Small Corner". She features in the book “Art and Artists of the Eastern Cape” published by the Mandela Bay Development Agency in 2011.