Simone McLeod is a Cree-Ojibway artist who was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1962. She is a member of the James Smith Cree First Nation, near Melfort, Saskatchewan. McLeod started creating art in her teens, experimenting with various mediums such as pencil, ink, charcoal and pastels, and turned to painting much later in life. Her work is in private, corporate and public collections throughout Canada, and in Europe and Asia.