Leo Ellingson

Ellingson (center) & friends at recent fancy-dress party

It is widely rumored that Leo Ellingson is in all probability a recovering vegetarian who accidentally "found" her self in a Transcendental Finger-Painting Fun for Senior Hypochondriacs class. Some called it group therapy but Ellingson reportedly insists it was an accredited class. Other watercolor classes followed primarily from local hero-artist, Susan Weathers.

A small number of local one man shows in the few years since her escape have led some to suggest that success appears to have gone to her head. Her closest friends however refute that rumor insisting that she has always been uncommonly insufferable.

More recently, Ellingson has taken vows as a born-again junk artist. While this may be touted as an uncharacteristic move for a woman of a "certain age" it does happily, seem to have brought out her most disgusting edge. Neighbors point out that it also keeps the roadways marvelously free of road-kill.

A retired geologist, Ellingson now resides primarily at her Soggy Bottom Studio in Heceta Beach with her cat Scwruffy, also a watercolorist. Unconfirmed Leo "sightings" also occur from time to time at her husband's family's homestead in the Mapleton area. The Mapleton area Chamber of Commerce apparently does not encourage these visits.