A native of California, Leslie moved to British Columbia after completing her BFA in 1975. Her studio gallery is adjacent to her home on Heffley Lake. As a contemporary artist, she combines conventional technology and primitive processes Raku, electric and pit fired clay work. As a potter, photographer, and poet, she juxtaposes form, images, and word. The symbol of the salmon as a metaphor for journey is a recurrent image in her work. She is passionate about art making.

As a boy of 13, Otto Rosner learned the art of making baskets for the potato harvest in his native Ukraine. During long years working in coal mines and doing semi-legal church work in Estonia, he forgot the art. When his sisters brought him to central British Columbia in 1990, he noticed the abundant willow supply. With much practice, he relearned the techniques involved in finishing a piece of basketry.

Pat Baker is a self-taught craftsman and been making objects from wood as a full-time occupation since 1981. In 1993, his wife Ilse joined him in the workshop and together they have been creating individual hand-crafted furniture, bowls and turnings. They prefer to use native woods such as pine and birch in the furniture and maple, cherry and birch burl in their turnings. Their home and workshop is in a rural setting next to the Nechako River in Prince George.