Leishman grew up in Georgia, moving to the Los Angeles area after completing her Masters of Fine
Arts degree from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. Originally trained as a photographer, she
now works in collage. Using both traditional and non-traditional materials, including fragments of
old projects, Leishman explores the dichotomies she witnesses. It is the push and pull between two
ideas that intrigues her most, the animating tensions between destruction and creation, expansion
and contraction, explosion and implosion
She has shown her work nationally, won awards, and taught fine art at universities in Utah and
California. Her work is beloved by designers such as Leanne Ford and Emily Henderson. She
recently exhibited in Downtown LA and recently had a solo show at Granary Arts, titled “Heaving
into Mountains”.