about Laura

Some days are very fluid, creativity just pours out, the brain churns, churns, and churns out images, ideas, colours, words…and other days there’s absolutely nothing. I mean what happened, it’s just suddenly all gone! Ahhhh!!! (a scream of horror). Truth be told I don’t really like surfing the net much…

I am happy to say I have kept up my timed 5-minute practice experiment that I started a couple of weeks ago. It feels pretty good doing this quick practice so I am committing to  more of it… maybe for a year, maybe less. I’m not good with super long…

This slow art experiment was again inspired by The Collage Workbook by Randel Plowman. He suggests in his book to work on a creative piece for one week by adding only one element each day. I decided to try this on a wood block that I had worked on but…

I’d like to show you how many changes and layers there can be in an art journal page. For me the process is unpredictable. A little planning always gets me started but this can be simply the decision to start the first layer with blues and the next with a…

In the Summer issue of Art Journaling magazine that I posted about a few days ago, the artists in the magazine were asked this question: Do you know what you will write when you start a page, or does the art dictate what you write? It’s interesting to read the…

In the past six months I’ve been working, researching, and creating for the exhibition Here Today that is now on at Britannia Art Gallery. Having such a goal can focus you and give you purpose, but it can also add an element of stress. You get very intimate with the…

The opening reception for my show Here Today is tonight from 6:30 to 8:30. The exhibition runs from August 1st to the 30th. Here Today (2 person show) Britannia Art Gallery 1661 Napier Street (in the library) Vancouver I will be sharing the gallery with artist Deanna Fogstrom who will…

When things get too busy…this blog gets no attention. I am overwhelmed and often tired these days! I’m  taking my second online course through SFU on technical writing. At the end of May I’ll have to decide whether I want to commit to the Certificate program–it’s not an easy decision….

Last year, in August, I submitted a proposal for an exhibition at my local art gallery/ library. At Britannia library, there is a small community art gallery. It’s a very small and unassuming gallery that gives emerging and established community artists the opportunity to show and share their work with…

I started this art journal page today and I may work on it some more. I’ve been wanting to do more pieces with typewriters, so today I tried hand-drawing my Brother typewriter from a photograph. I’m pretty happy with the results as I consider myself more of a photo-based artist….

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