Leah Thompson has been a professional artist and elementary school art teacher in Roanoke, VA for over 20 years. She specializes in creating colorful and expressive oil paintings. She is best known for her impressionistic paintings of ballerina dancers. Leah also paints vivid genre paintings, landscapes, and florals as well as commissioned works. Though oil paint is her primary medium of choice, she enjoys working in acrylic, pen and ink, and oil pastel. “The whole premise of any of my work is