Leslie Ober is an award-winning Indiana artist who enjoys playing with and exploring many different mediums. While she enjoys a wide variety of subject matter, she is most alive when creating colorful, abstract pieces. Using bright colors, and bold shapes and lines, she evokes movement and emotion in her work. She is also a fine art photographer, specializing in newborn and child portraiture. Leslie has a degree in education from Indiana University and has been homeschooling her six children for over 12 years. She is a natural teacher, who delights in sharing her work and process with those around her. Leslie is also a writer and looks forward to publishing children’s books when the time is right. She believes that every person is made in the image of God, who created them, and therefore every human is a creative being. Her passion is to encourage others to awaken and pursue their own creativity. Whether it’s in the form of artistic exploration, cooking an amazing meal, tending a beautiful garden, constructing a perfectly functioning spreadsheet, flawlessly directing a group of individuals, or a myriad of other avenues, we are all uniquely creative.
One of her favorite quotes by George Bernard Shaw states, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” Her goal in life is to never stop playing, exploring, or creating and to encourage others along the way.
HCAA Juried Member
Chicago Pastel Painters
Indiana Heritage Arts Member
Indiana Plein Air Painters Association
Nickel Plate Artist Member
Hoosier Salon Member
2020 Polk Street Review: Special Award for Artwork and writing
2019 Open Lens Photography Exhibit: BEST of SHOW, 1st Place, and honorable mention
2019 Polk Street Review: 2nd place painting
2019 Polk Street Review: short story, honorable mention
2018 Polk Street Review: 3rd place image
2016 HSLDA Christmas card contest winner
2014 Sonlight catalog photo contest winner
March 2020 Loving LARGE Exhibit, Noblesville City Hall
March 2020 Enchanted Spring Exhibit, Birdie Gallery
January 2020 Urban/Rural Exhibit, Nickel Plate Arts
December 2019 “Do Millennials Still Like Pink?” Exhibit, Harrison Center for the Arts
November – December 2019 Under $100 Holiday Exhibit, Birdie Gallery
October 2019 Open Lens Photography Exhibit, Birdie Gallery
September 2019 Re-Member Exhibit, Nickel Plate Arts
August 2019 My Indiana Home Exhibit, Nickel Plate Arts
August – October 2019 The Music in Me, Solo Exhibit, Ji-Eun Lee Music, Fishers
August 2019 HCAA Annual Members Exhibit, Carmel Library
August 2019 Noblesville Art Fair on the Square, booth
June-September 2019 Origin Stories, IGNITE Studio – Fishers
April 2019 Mother Earth Exhibit and demonstration, Birdie Gallery
March 2019 Healing Through Art Exhibit, Nickel Plate Arts
March – June 2019 In Bloom Exhibit, IGNITE Studio – Fishers
February – March 2019 New Members Exhibit, Birdie Gallery
February – March 2019 Living Large Exhibit, Noblesville City Hall
January 2019 In Perspective Abstract Exhibit, Nickel Plate Arts
September 2018 – February 2019 Middle West Exhibit, IGNITE Studio – Fishers
October 2018 Our Creative Community Group Exhibit, HCAA – Birdie Gallery
July 2018 Figures of Speech juried exhibit, Anderson Museum of Art