I'm a mixed media artist
who creates unique works of art using acrylic paint and recycled
paper. I am constantly collecting
old greeting cards, wrapping paper, paper bags, scrap bits of craft
paper...basically, if it's paper and it's colorful...I'll probably
use it.
I've been a creator my entire life. I studied art in bits and pieces throughout my childhood and started my degree in college as an art major, but ended up studying a more broad range of subjects (in other words...I took lots of classes, for lots of years, in lots of subjects, and ended up with a degree in Liberal Arts)
My passion for mixed media mosaics was born after a weekend tile mosaic class with a friend. Although, I loved creating mosaics, I was moderately terrified of working with actual tile and grout again...due to a minor habit of being an extremely clumsy and accident prone person. So, instead I started cutting up old greeting cards we had lying around the house to glue to paper so I could “practice” the art of mosaic work. It was during that time that I began to really fall in love with paper mosaics, and my artistic path was illuminated.
On any given day you'll find me balancing between being a wife, a mother, and being hunched over my art table, covered in paint, furiously gluing tiny paper tiles to my latest creation. It's a beautiful chaos and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Xo,
Lauren
I've been a creator my entire life. I studied art in bits and pieces throughout my childhood and started my degree in college as an art major, but ended up studying a more broad range of subjects (in other words...I took lots of classes, for lots of years, in lots of subjects, and ended up with a degree in Liberal Arts)
My passion for mixed media mosaics was born after a weekend tile mosaic class with a friend. Although, I loved creating mosaics, I was moderately terrified of working with actual tile and grout again...due to a minor habit of being an extremely clumsy and accident prone person. So, instead I started cutting up old greeting cards we had lying around the house to glue to paper so I could “practice” the art of mosaic work. It was during that time that I began to really fall in love with paper mosaics, and my artistic path was illuminated.
On any given day you'll find me balancing between being a wife, a mother, and being hunched over my art table, covered in paint, furiously gluing tiny paper tiles to my latest creation. It's a beautiful chaos and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Xo,
Lauren
Exhibits
“Ventura County Fair Professional Arts Gallery”
Ventura County Fairgrounds
Ventura, Ca August 2011
"Ojai Celebrates Art IV"
Ojai Valley Museum
Ojai, Ca. October-December 2011
“Ojai Lavender Festival Art Exhibit”
Cafe Emporium
Ojai, Ca November 2011
Ojai Mardi Gras Art Show
Ojai Art Center
Ojai, CA March 2012
Gallery 525 "Small Works" Show
Gallery 525
Meiners Oaks, Ca February 2013
