Leonor Anthony

After decades of devotion to lunchboxes, teacher meetings and driving lessons, artist Leonor Anthony now focuses on her spirituality, her education and her art.

Exhibited worldwide today, her pieces reflect her life experience, passion, and personal growth, demonstrating that art does indeed imitate life. Anthony was born in Cuba. Her family relocated to Miami while she was still a young child.

Growing up, she was far more interested in climbing trees, kicking soccer balls and drawing on everything she could get her hands on as long as she had a pencil to draw.

Her family encouraged her to participate in Miss Latin USA beauty pageant at the age of 17. She won this, her first and only beauty pageant.

Yet this accomplishment did have an effect. It was a life changing experience. She spent a year touring many Latin American countries and met people from a variety of cultures. This gave birth to an already internal passion to express her vision, her philanthropic love for humanity through her art. Her art is totally an expression of her life that she has touched and that has touched her.

Since then, Anthony has never let boundaries of culture, family or those set by herself affect her dreams and ambitions.

Her perseverance and motivation surpassed the everyday schedule of raising three children. She successfully persevered in her career as an actor/model in 2004. She performed in movies like Wild Things (1998), Amos and Andrew (1993) and Confetti (1996) among others.

When her youngest children (twin girls) started to drive, she found more time for her artwork.

Anthony threw herself into developing as an artist, studying technique, painting prolifically, defining her own style and gaining more education.

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Leonor Anthony focuses on her art, spirituality