Art making has been at his core even from my earliest memories. He has explored many avenues, including printmaking and painting, during his undergraduate studies at Rollins College then at Savannah College of Art and Design where he received an MFA in Illustration. For more than the past decade he has become passionate about ceramics. He has been a teacher of all these mediums as well as watercolor painting. Art is as essential to him as shelter, food and oxygen.

Lesley Silva’s work bears witness to the results of contemporary hysteria, specifically the ways in which mental illness complicates communication and creates dysfunction in human connections. Lesley wants to attract a curious viewer, her art serves to open conversation about the human embodiment of identity; through trauma, privilege, power, and manipulation.

SKIP is the host and creator of the reality-art-tv show “SKIP’s Big Ideas,” and of the social propaganda machine known as Franchise Industries, a creative lens which re-presents popular advertising and pop-culture branding in a more honest and truthful interpretation. His works highlight and critique social, political, religious & cultural issues in a humorous, engaging and often interactive presentation.