Dallas, Texas

Laurie is a painter and jewelry designer living in Dallas, Texas. Laurie is a self-taught abstract artist working with acrylic, charcoal, ink and pastel on paper and canvas. She builds layers using paint and drawing with gestural marks until a rich texture evolves with a beautiful history of addition and subtraction. The piece takes on many forms and has a great many faces until a design emerges and a refining process begins. This reduction of elements is both bold and considered, both radical and cautious. Eventually the composition settles, and final adjustments complete the piece. Laurie’s current work reflects the experience of landscape and geology up close in the abstract where straight lines and strata comingle with organic shape and color. Every day is an opportunity to walk in nature near my home to immerse in the natural environment. The paintings juxtapose this natural environment with geometric details that create a disruptive boundary between organic and inorganic elements and color and shape. Recent work has been an exploration of bright and bold color and form to heighten the senses and surprise the eye – placing contrasting color together adjacent to harmonious blends of each to take you up and down the spectrum.

Using my professional experience working with architecture, real estate and design, I blend my love for composition and balance with abstract artwork, creating modern and contemporary artwork that work in many different styles of homes and commercial properties. Laurie has a degree in Geology and an MBA in Marketing and has been selected in various juried shows in the area.