Laurie Stewart

Williams

Words

There are no ugly colors,

just unfortunate combinations - Unknown Author

Painting is

cathartic.

I

enjoy the physical process of applying the paint and

watching the colors spread on the surface, mix with

the color below adding depth, texture, value, and

hue, I love overlapping colors and intense values. I

build up layers of paint so that the previous colors

influence current color, through layers and layers

of paint every time improving and changing the

surface.

Who am I as a

painter?

I don t know, I feel

like an onion I am forever peeling away layers.

I

can t turn off my visual approach to life.

Currently

my areas of interest are animals (Animal Portraits)

and the challenge of combining abstract objects

whose forms are dissimilar (Sticks & Stones).

Realism

and abstraction, I am conscious of the graphic

quality of a painting from the beginning.

I let the shapes and

images, edges and spaces guide my composition and

color.

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Education

1982 - BFA,

University of Washington, Seattle

Shows

2008 -

Cheap

Tricks, Cafe Fiore, Seattle

2007 -

Animal

Portraits, Cafe Fiore, Seattle

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