Leslie Watkins

Teaches at Society of Scribes

Leslie Watkins 's botanical watercolors and nature studies have decorated note cards, placemats, textiles, and Battersea enamel boxes. Her illustrations have appearedinternationally on postage stamps, in books and magazines. Clients include Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Tiffany & Co., Caspari, Disney's Animal Kingdom, and Nickelodeon.

Watkins has exhibited at The Columbus Museum, The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, The National Arts Club, The Salmagundi Club, The Union League Club, The Hudson Valley Art Association, The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, The Lyme Art Association and elsewhere, including Japan. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and of the New England Guild of Natural Science Illustrators.

Leslie has instructed enthusiastic students for over 25 years. She conducts workshops at various art centers and regularly at WaterWorks, an itinerant gallery and art school based in Norfolk, CT specializing in nature based watercolor painting.