About The Artist

Since moving to Bonaire Georgia (2000) Leslie has been a free lance artist, and art teacher. She has two illustrations in the Macon Sketch book, and Illustrated the Book ‘Bullmina the Courageous Bulldog’, and its sequel 'Bullmina to the Rescue': www.bullmina.com Two of her paintings were given to President G W Bush when he was in Perry, GA one Halloween, the paintings were American Chaos, 9-11, and Iraqi Freedom. Leslie also paints wildlife, pet portraiture, aviation, fantasy, and political paintings. Ms. Hoops-Wallace has been the President of the Fine Art Society of Middle Georgia, and is active in the group. Leslie is the Art instructor for the Arts and Crafts Center on Robins AFB in Warner Robins, Georgia, teaching watercolor, drawing, and acrylic. She also teaches at the Butler Brown Gallery, Acrylics for kids, and at the Byron Visitors center at the Peach Shops teaching Watercolor. Leslie Hoops-Wallace enjoys painting animals, and in the mid eighties,(while in Antioch, California) and most of the nineties (While in San Antonio, Texas) worked in animal hospitals as a veterinarians assistant, and receptionist. While there she studied the animal muscle structure, mostly of cats and dogs, and some birds; but horses are her favorite to paint. Leslie used to own horses, until going to college, (1983-1986 Academy Of Art University, San Francisco, CA BFA in Illustration.) and did not have time for them. Her favorite class during college was the location drawing with Bill Shields. The class went all over San Francisco drawing in a sketch book with an ink pen. That will build your confidence in drawing! Now most of Leslie's time is spent with family, and teaching. She has two boys and they both enjoy drawing. Her husband works also at Robins AFB. You can find Leslie Hoops-Wallace on Facebook, She posts her paintings there as they are finished, sometimes posting up the Works in Process, so you can follow along. You can also find her on Deviant Art as unicornsquest.