Leigh-Ann Lemire, a.k.a. ILIA, is a fine artist, author and the Founder of Help 2 Succeed, an innovative agency for career management, marketing and goal achievement consulting firm based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The main focus of Help 2 Succeed is for creative & talented folks. It is also for businesses and professionals.
ILIA is a published author of original modern day fairy tales created in the old style fashion of fairy tales. The fairy tales are allegories of present society with solutions to the troubles in an entertaining story. Adults like the entertaining stories because of the reference to modern society; children enjoy the stories because of the entertainment and the lessons to be learned. Three books are presetnly published with three more to be published in 2009.
ILIA was personally mentored by a Master of the Arts, who was also a published author, for 14 years. She holds credentials as a business manager, the Les Dane Big League Sales Closing Techniques Workshop, Seminar, and Course, she has over 20 years experience in direct mail and internet marketing techniques.
As an artist, she has created a new art painting style dubbed "reverie". She creates on canvas with acrylics and oils, as an illustrator (pencil on paper), as a photographer, designer and as a graphic illustrator plus a combination of all styles created with computer software.
She has been consulting business, creative and talented people worldwide since 1998 with inspiration, tips, how-to’s instructions and services. She believes in the school of "validating the rightness" as the results are phenomenal in the growth of individuals working toward their endeavors.
She has made public appearances including 3 guest appearances on the Hollywood Television Show “Journey to the Cosmos”. Her art has been displayed at various art shows in Los Angeles and in the Valley of the Sun - Phoenix, Arizona.
She has three office assistants that leave their paw prints around the studio and at times contribute their two cents worth to her creations: Mr. Max A. Million, Opie Taylor and Shielynn. Max is the better typer and contibutes his a-mew-sing stories.
"Life is a Canvas." ILIA
"I have shown her work to two other professional artists, one of whom has exhibited in many major museums around the world. Each admired her work. One of them remarked that she has 'a wonderful eye'. It is not merely that her paintings have beauty and power, although they surely do. It is more that they are filled with new and valid perceptions of reality which cause the viewer to cognite. Her work is bold, imaginative, creative, powerful. These are much more than pretty pictures skillfully done. It is clear that she has something new and valuable to contribute to the world. It is an honor to have followed her career." R.E.G. Master of Arts Columbia University