| Event / Participants | Leslie Anne Smith Art Exhibitions | Event Date | 2026 exhibits and appointments; dates vary |
| Event Location | Leslie Anne Smith Art | Start Time | Viewing and exhibition hours vary; contact the artist first. |
| Address | 2535 Kilo Way, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 | Gate / Check-in | Studio viewing is by current listing or prior arrangement. |
| Phone | (310) 701-3717 | Official Link | Leslie Anne Smith Art information |
Leslie Anne Smith is a Laguna Beach and Baja, Mexico-based artist whose mesmerizing photographs explore the melding of beauty, movement, and transformation through water.
We recently had the pleasure to meet Leslie Anne Smith while she was exhibiting her art/photography at the Laguna Art Festival at The Pageant of The Masters.
From her website: With a successful career as a TV commercial director/cinematographer behind me, I am thrilled to now be light and agile with a still camera. Water has a wild imagination; it bends light, warps bodies, and turns botanicals into painterly watercolors that wrap models in kaleidoscopes of color. The surprises in everything water touches serve as the canvas for my images. My new series, Bodies and Botanicals, is the wildly entangled result.
My photography celebrates my love for botanicals, dance, and the ocean. Dance has been a lifelong passion, along with gardens, tactile textures, and design. So much so that after my degree from Art Center College of Design, I studied Landscape Architecture. I make my home in Laguna Beach, CA, and Baja, Mexico, where the ocean is front and center in my life. On the beach with my dog or boogie boarding, the ocean is a part of most every day.
Bodies and Botanicals was shot in Mexico, Spain, and the US, with me shooting at the water’s edge. The plant ‘models’ are willing participants, always awaiting their close-up. Every neighbor’s yard, park, or nursery holds endless possibilities! The models are friends and acquaintances: a former bodybuilder, a mother of 3, a 67-year-old philanthropist, a high-powered lawyer…and the list goes on. My images are about freedom, openness, and the infinite world available to us. I invite you to jump in and find your own joy and relationship to each finished piece.
Leslie’s work can be viewed and purchased on www.leslieannesmith.art
Giving back: Leslie Anne Smith’s practice is guided by generosity and connection. Proceeds after expenses go to non-profits, extending the creative exchange beyond her images. Fresh, striking and unusual, her work moves us to reflect and meet our own imagination with each image.
