Leah (Anne) McCall began creating art as a little girl. Her late Uncle Stanley Sakovich was an artist in New Orleans, teaching at private schools in New Orleans, and was well-known for designing floats during Carnival/Mardi Gras. He began teaching Leah how to draw and color with pencils and crayons as a child. Leah put art aside to further her career as an assessment counselor in psychology. In 1994 her life was interrupted with a tragedy when her fiance was shot and killed. Five years later Leah was living in Baton Rouge, La where she learned process her grief to art work. She was able to sell all but one of her pieces in which she keeps to remind herself of the journey. She went to graduate school and earned an MA in Education. She taught for 7 years in North Louisiana until Co-vid. Leah decided to return to art. She began working with acrylics. The first festival she entered was the Red River Revel in 2022 and 2023. She loves participating in the small pop up markets and Highland Jazz Festival locally. Leah also loves attending the larger art markets in Houston: Art in the Park, Sienna Art Festival, Sugarland, Pecan Art Festival. She has been to markets in Natchitoches, Baton Rouge, and Breaux Bridge, LA. She loves to create her abstracts using palo santo (holy wood), blessed holy water from church, and acrylics. She also uses these her wildlife series. Leah currently lives in Bossier City, happily married to William McCall. Her work is heavily influenced by spiritualism. She is a true believer in the Lord