"Many Masks" ©  Laura Parker, 2005   l   "Perfect Mate" ©  Laura Paker, 2006   l   "Saturday Night Girl" ©  Laura Parker, 2006

Laura Parker - Mixed Media (Currently resides: Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.)   :::   EMAIL

Laura Parker is a fine artist living in Atlanta, Georgia, the city where she was born. She is by nature, an abstract painter, working with acrylics, collage, and a wide variety of mixed media materials. She creates original abstract constructions on canvas, paper, and wood. She began her arts journey and career in the mid-1970’s as a singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her desire to push and explore rhythmic expression ‘accidently’ led her to laying down paint and mixed media materials on paper and canvas. In 2000 she began to study painting and drawing with nationally known artist, Chery Baird, at the Spruill Center for the Arts in Atlanta. Her works have shown in local galleries in the Southeast and she has expanded her private collections to Central and South America. Laura about herself: I look for everyday images and objects, in a city that often may appear chaotic and cold. If one looks closer, there are many wonderful shapes, shadows, and lines to be captured on any given day. I actively look for these images wherever I may be. Concrete walls, power lines, scrap metal materials, construction sites, abandoned buildings...magical images are there for the taking. Nature offers the same. I look among trees, rocks, and bodies of water for shapes and shadows that seem to form perfect images. I take these images and ‘feel’ the compositions for rhythm and harmony, working visually, just as I would with a music composition. There is a history to every living and non-living thing; a vibration and an energy. I transfer these images to canvas, paper, and wood with paint, collage, and mixed media materials. As an abstract painter, I move quickly and directly, listening to the rhythm of the image, further allowing the paint and brush to guide me. From there, it’s about listening to the spiritual unconscious that guides and directs from deep within. For me, the final outcome of the piece should remain secondary to the journey and of the creative process experienced in ‘finding’ the finished piece.