Bio
Leslie Stokes creates her paintings in a studio in historic downtown Fort Pierce Florida. She graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Art History, with concentrations in museum studies and painting. She has studied painting along the Normandy coast and the gardens at Giverny, France. She furthered her studies with artists Aida Fry, Brenda Hope Zappitell, Steven Aimone and Rebecca Crowell.
She has been juried into shows at the Cummer Museum of Art, The Art Museum Deland, the Vero Beach Museum of Art, and the Elliot Museum. Selected corporate collections include City National Bank, Miami, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Jill Schwartz and Associates in Winter Park, Florida, Shelby Homes of Florida and Rumberger Kirk Caldwell PA, Tampa, Florida. She is represented by Ron Pedonti Interior Design, Orlando and Winter Park, Florida.