ABOUT THE ARTIST
Leslie De Leon is a nationally and Internationally selling, self-represented visual artist based in Texas and Colorado. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in painting and drawing in May 2022. Her work explores both the beauty of the Borderlands region and the glory of the Great American West with influences of western, chicano, and cowboy/vaquero culture.
In 2021, De Leon traveled across Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California with her camera and a sketchbook in hand to gain inspiration, capturing the stunning landscape scenes in the southwest, U.S. - Mexico border.
In 2023, she completed her first online exhibition, the Lotería Collection, inspired by the card game of the same name. Recreating sixteen cards into original oil paintings, the series sold successfully across the country thanks to widespread support on social media.
De Leon has been selling her work online as an independent artist since 2019 to collectors across the United States, as well as across the globe!
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