Laurie Skantzos

I first saw Laurie Skantzos at the West Hamilton Artist Tour. Her work is inspired by wild gardens, urban landscapes and gritty graffiti and strives to make the invisible visible. She incorporates a wide variety of materials and media in her work. Japanese paper and tissues, powdered pigments, lino block printing, acrylic paint and oil sticks are some of her favorites. She is showing at the upcoming One-of-a-Kind Show, so look for her work there!

Here is what she says about her work:
"The process of creating a painting, watching as it unfolds and seeing it as a finished product is both exciting and meditative for me. This duality that I experience in my engagement with the work interests me in other areas as well. Order and chaos vie for dominance; beauty gives way to decay only to emerge once again, deliberation retreats as intuition takes over. I find that the act of painting eventually reveals to me what is really going on in my inner world even as I react with or against the outer world, searching for inspiration.

I'm interested in organic life on all levels, as well as expansion and procreation. As I get older, I seek to break open and expand on my experiences and ideas rather than begin to shut down in complacency. My painting is an expression of that and also an investigation."

Laurie Skantzos