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Leslie, like so many of artists, followed in the footsteps of her    mother, and is a painter just as she is. This led to an art degree where her mentor was a painter who had excelled in a career selling his work at the art fairs. With influences like this it is no wonder to find her today at the top shows in the country exhibiting her luminous abstract pieces.

Her newest body of work is "acrylic on acrylic." Moving away from her watercolor days she now does reverse painting with acrylics on acrylic sheets. She had always used plexiglas to lay out her paints and brushes but one day as she looked at the by-product of her preparation and saw the blobs of color through the clear surface of the acrylic she discovered a new technique.

Building up layers of the paint gradually and transparently and sometimes opaquely created incredible clarity of color and incredible textural effects. It was liquidness frozen, parts of the paints look as though they are still wet and she's able to achieve fantastically deep, layered paintings with color and textural effects comparable to nothing else.