Laura Morrison is a young versatile artist from U. K and is recently married. She calls the Kootenays her home for seven years. Originally from Sparwood B. C, she moved to Kamloops B. C when she was 10 but had always known that she would somehow make it back to the mountains. Her love for the mountains and the amazing scenery within B. C always manages to make it into her artwork. She graduated from Thompson River’ s University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a focus in painting. For her graduating exhibition, she worked through a series of paintings that took relationships with technology and nature and found a way to make them work together as one. She took organisms like cancer cells and extreme close-ups of other organic items like leaves and moss and abstracted them into works where the materials and process she used outweighed the actual imagery. After school, she spent some time working on smaller process-based abstract pieces. She put the focus on what happens during the making of the works and the reactions between solvents, oils and the pigments themselves. This was a good way to let go of control since the works almost never come out looking the way you left them when they were dry.
Stunning Landscapes
Laura Morrison is a young versatile artist from U. K and is recently married. She calls the Kootenays her home for seven years. Originally from Sparwood B. C, she moved to Kamloops B. C when she was 10 but had always known that she would somehow make it back to the mountains. Her love for the mountains and the amazing scenery within B. C always manages to make it into her artwork. She graduated from Thompson River’ s University in 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a focus in painting. For her graduating exhibition, she worked through a series of paintings that took relationships with technology and nature and found a way to make them work together as one. She took organisms like cancer cells and extreme close-ups of other organic items like leaves and moss and abstracted them into works where the materials and process she used outweighed the actual imagery. After school, she spent some time working on smaller process-based abstract pieces. She put the focus on what happens during the making of the works and the reactions between solvents, oils and the pigments themselves. This was a good way to let go of control since the works almost never come out looking the way you left them when they were dry.
“ More recently I’ ve rediscovered my love for the landscape. Using photographs of my adventures around all the amazing places to hike, I’ ve been working on many local landmarks within the Kootenays as well as going back into photos from when I’ d go hiking around Kamloops.
As well as painting, I also really enjoy photography and always have a camera of some type be it my cell phone, my husband’ s DSLR, or my 35. mm Pentax by my side. Most – if not all of my landscapes are painted from a photograph that I have taken. Everything I see I envision as a painting, so the camera just helps me remember what I see. I find it more fulfilling to put my energy into a painting when the entire composition is my own. My primary medium of choice has been acrylic and acrylic texture building mediums. I do, however, love to paint with oils; I just find them to be a better medium for larger more time- consuming works. My grandmother was also an artist; she too was always painting her surroundings. I have always seen the time I spend painting as time spent with her. As I kid I used to come home from school and watch Bob Ross with her while I waited for my mom to come get us”. She Says!
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