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Anna Lisa Leal

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Biography

I am originally from Laredo - on the border of Texas and Mexico. My history runs deep in the area since my family has been in in the South Texas region since 1731 when they arrived from the Canary Islands to the Villa de San Fernando in the Bexar Presidio - what is now San Antonio.

Though I vividly remember drawing through high school and college, I pursued a degree in the sciences. I discovered I had an aptitude in botany which was my first college course in biology. When the semester was over, I was invited to teach the laboratory aspect of that course while I was at that campus. Little did I know that love of botany would find me later in life.

In 2013, I attended a half day pastel workshop, and I fell in love with the medium. I furthered my education in pastels by taking numerous workshops with nationally and internationally known pastel artists. Over the years, I picked up various techniques that resonated with me and led me to develop a technique of my own which includes preparing my boards in various ways to achieve the effect in the result I want to portray. Botanical subjects are my primary love.

In alignment with my dry medium, I am most inspired by the dry/xeric specimens found in the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts and throughout the Southwestern United States. When people ask me to name my favorite between cacti, succulents aloe and agave, my heart is invariably with the agave. I admire the stateliness of the agave and the seemingly endless variations in size, colors and shapes. I have a fascination with the undulation of some species of agave leaves and am intrigued by the markings of the now unfurled agave leaves on its adjacent leaves - like footsteps in sand. The ultimate beauty is that of the poignant swan song of the agave flower - it's last hurrah before death.

I never fully understood her fascination with xeric botanicals until I was driving through the city of Presidio. It was only then I realized given my birthplace and early years, I was simply drawing my home. Home for the last thirty plus years has been in and around Austin, Texas. Currently, my studio is at my home in the Hill Country northwest of Austin near the Balconies Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge.

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