Leslie Jones has been designing for over 25 years, having received her formal training from the University of Western Ontario in Fine Arts, and from Shaw Business College in Fashion Merchandising.

Early on in her career Leslie travelled extensively on the West Coast of Canada and found that native culture truly inspired her. This lead to her first successful collection of hand-painted pillows sewn from raw deer skins. Another medium that Ms. Jones discovered in her travels was plaster. The unique design of neo fresco; embedding 3-D objects into street scenes, then painting and finishing with deep urethane particularly fascinated her.

When purchasing jewelry for herself, Leslie would have a design in mind, then would add to a piece or change it to suit her singular vision. Her love affair with the past and her original, personal flair for the modern developed into her unique and inspired "Things Toronto" and "Story Beads" collections. These collections represent the coming together of contemporary design elements with retro imaging. Each bead is painstakingly handmade; poured from resin into her original design moulds. These collections have been hugely successful in retail outlets in the City of Toronto.

Leslie lives in the Beach area of Toronto with her daughter, son and partner.

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