The funny photo of the train painted on my arm leads to the main page of my art site. This is Hilary Leigh's Biography about the artists. As you see I have had a very unusual life and I am glad to be alive and even more glad to be out of the usa at the moment. As I am working on new sites and fun stuff I am in a place with freedom of speech, freedom of expression and just real peace and freedom. Grin. Yeah you can guess where I am for the new site stuff idag grin. ha.
In the past many of my friends have told me that I give out way too much person information online. I always felt that I have nothing to hide but, in ways I think I used to be pretty naive. On the internet and in person it is much wiser to be on guard and not give out too much information about yourself to anyone. I have been through more than what most people live through but, it has all made me the person that I am today. If that is good or bad at this point I am really not sure. Grin. Things I speak of here will just give you a basic idea of who I am and tell a little bit about me. I keep to myself a lot in ways. Maybe it is because I am always working on so much or it could be because I am really very shy. I have always had a very low self esteem and never felt like I fit in with the people around me.
I moved from Kansas City, Missouri to Texas around 1998. Texas is the last place I ever would have wanted to be. I was stalked by a guy that was thought to have killed 7 other girls back in Kansas City. He hit the car that I was a passenger in because he thought I knew more than I really did about things of that sort. My head was split open from top to bottom, my eye lids were pretty cut up, my liver was tore very badly, and all the skin on my back was completely off. They told me I would be scarred from that for life but, I healed very well. I was in the hospital for about a month or so. There is more on that KC, MO incident or also called attempted murder in kcmo at This Link. Information on the car wreck and serial killer in KCMO (offline see main page why). I did not get post traumatic Stress Disorder from there even though it was scary when he came to try to finish me off aka kill me for good.
Not long after I got to Texas I started working for FEMA "The Federal Emergency Management Agency." I skated at a skating rink in Lewisville on weekends. When FEMA had a lay off due to no Federal Disasters I went to the corporate world where I worked for a company as a Executive Director Of Marketing in Dallas for about 5 years. I took a vacation in 2002 to go to Houston and watch the quad Olympic skaters and even to compete in a figure skating and artistic freestyle dance competition. Quad is what they call roller skates now. is what they now call Quads. The other girls were very good skaters and I did not feel I fit in since I only had skating lessons for a year but, I always loved to skate board and roller skate. To me that also was fun. You can see my roller skating clips off the link Here my skate videos!. After about 4 years the company I was working for hired an older lady that started taking some of my commissions. Since I was making only 50K a year and my house was about a 170K I could not afford to work there on just salary. I soon quit and I started an online store. I went to flea markets on weekends to sell products and market my webpage. I also sold incense burners and things to head shops. I still had a members area on my old website where I did my body paint on webcam and had tons of photos and such. I have been online since 1999 and have always loved to paint. *oh if you were looking for jobs or marketing ideas there are a few articles and pages to help find jobs, marketing ideas to advertise online and how to pages (offline see main page why also) ect.
On my website I had mostly European fans that joined to see me do live body paint and see the photos of body paint. I dated a Dutch artist that found me on the internet and liked my painting or so he said. I think for sure he was one of those girl watchers online. After awhile it ended badly when I decided that I could not deal with the type of art he did. He was doing nude photography and body painting girls nude. I could not live with that in ways. I guess to him it was not a big deal but, to me it was just something that I decided that I did not want to live with. I am very open minded in ways but, I am sure he was not the kind of guy that could be trusted. Later when he was trying to get me to take him back he even had another girl living with him at that very time. That shows that I did the right thing and did not just react for no reason. I am sure more went on than art because that is just the kind of person he was. I soon began to become very depressed. I had some friends online that were with me to help me through my depression.
In 2003 I got my cat Zola. She has helped me through so much. A short time after I got her I moved to an apartment. My mortgage on my house was costing me a bit over 1,200.00 a month and that was not counting the insurance and interest so it got a bit hard for me. I was making about 60K a year doing marketing and running a sales crew for a home improvement company in Dallas. I did that for years then they hired an old lady that started taking my leads and appointments which also meant taking my commissions. That was not so easy so I decided they sucked after all those years. Hiring someone to help me and for me to teach and all then poof she steals. Wow how american they let her take them then said ops on no that was wrong we will give your resets and appointments back. Well daily she was in my office all over my desk so I worked hard to work elsewhere for myself grin. Later I started doing web design and online marketing for some companies and started doing a Texas magazine called On The Edge Ads & Entertainment. I started that while I was still working for the Dallas Company and ended up doing enough to just run my new papers and ads ect. I work from the time I woke to the time I slept if I slept at all. Zola my cat loved having me home and often she thought she was helping. A lot of times she did by coming to rub me and make me go cuddle then fall asleep. She still jumps on the keyboard and comes to take me to bed when I have not slept like I should. If you see strange typing it may not be me it may be my cat in chat. She sure maked work fun. You can find photos and info on Zola Here.
I have been in sales and marketing jobs since I was about 16 years old. I was in a place in Texas that was robbed at gun point. The robbers held guns to my head. Ever since the robbery in Texas I have not been the same in ways. Information on the robber can be found Here for Robbery in Dallas! Offline main page tells why!. I only go to certain stores now where I feel safe. I do not go out much after dark or in the day except to work. Just since June of 2005 I have started to feel less of the panic attacks as I call them. I looked up Post Traumatic Stress Disorder online and it seems that I fit with a lot of the symptoms of that now. I have a son that was born in 1988 and I think if not for him and my cat it would be hard for me to keep up with all that I do. I want to make the best life possible for us all so, I work a lot of hours on many different things.
My friends from far all say that I am an artist in their opinions but to me I am just a girl that likes to paint and do sketches. To me art is something that you do for fun and to help express how you are feeling at the time or something that you never plan out. I think art is something that just ends up showing how you were feeling at the time. It is like you do not think about what you are painting but, the brush just leads the way and it becomes what it was meant to be. When I do body paint I never plan or think what it will become but I just follow the brush. When we get older in life we can hope to keep the creative side and at the same time hope to find a place or thing that makes us forget everything and lose ourselves in that moment. To me playing guitar, skating, writing poetry and painting have all helped me find that place in time. I call that the zone. Also when I am getting some kitty loving it is like also being in the zone.
The Above Biography of Leigh was written around July of 2005. It seemed boring and too long for anyone to care to read. Sorry if I at times speak in 3rd person but, for some reason it has become a habit. I took some things out and did a bit of editing to put links to show things or clips of my skating and things I wrote ect. I wanted to make it easier for people to see what I was speaking about in ways. I hope that helped.
As for the post traumatic Stress Disorder it was caused by a number of events and traumatic things. The attempted murder from what we all believe to be a serial killer that got away with many murders was not the only thing that I dealt with. The robbery was not the only thing I had dealt with on having guns to my head in Dallas. Years ago in Missouri I lost the use of my right arm for what they thought was forever. I was lucky to have it. That was really from a bad situation if you wish to know. That is here on life after death (probably offline see main page why) but it does not tell of the years in a very abusive relationship. 1 year is too long so a few and 5 is too much eh. Anyway a year felt like a lifetime and one day when I was younger I got smart. I got out while I was alive after once sided fights or beatings and stress you could not imagine. Yeah I think toward the end I started to learn to hit back instead of crouch in whimp position grin. that was so many decades back and I am lucky and happy that I was brought back to life and have an arm that works just in a different way. *yeah arms do not just go through glass windows or doors close on them to sever them so often in reality. We know something more went on. I was 10 minutes late from work so it was a bad fight night that day and the results sucked.* Long story but If anyone really wanted to know I would probably write about it when I have finished important things on pages. grin. that is history not worth the thoughts now even.