Leonie is an award winning botanical artist, prominent tutor and published author of 'Women of Flowers: Botanical Art in Australia from 1830s to 1960s'.

Highly qualified: BA/Visual Arts, B.Fine Arts (Hons)Plant & Wildlife Illustration, Grad.Dip.VET (Adult Education)

International External Botanical Art Examiner

Botanical exhibition judge and selector

Is the only Australian botanical educator invited to teach in the United Kingdom, Canada and Fiji

Conducts courses and specialised workshops in various Sydney venues and Summer Schools in regional NSW, WA, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada and the UK.

Paintings are widely represented in Australia and overseas in public and private collections, including the prestigious Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Exhibits annually at the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition and Canberra Botanical Exhibition.

Highly in demand as a tutor and public speaker of Botanical Art

Regular contributor to Australia Artist and Artists' Palette Magazines

Illustrates every issue of Nature & Health magazine as well as private commissions.

Raising the awareness of Botanical Art in Australia and New Zealand.

Member of the Botanical Art Society of Australia, American Society of Botanical Artists,   Friends of the Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.