Driven to paint how the world feels inside of her, Laura predominantly uses the human figure as her way to convey what she can’t say in words. Laura’s work has themes of nature and sensuality, and when filtered through her subjective experience, she invites a conversation between form and abstraction. Before moving to Asheville, Laura lived for 8 months in an off grid house in the Appalachian mountains of NC. In this chapter of life, Laura found the barriers between the natural world and herself eroded -- an immersion that is often a focal point of her recent work. Laura’s current mediums are oils, acrylics, and watercolors. Her process involves a balance between structure and freedom, or, in her own words: “I want to have the courage to let go of control. Art helps me regain the thrill of being messy and imperfect and unashamed of that.”