Laura's work emerges from observation—a tactile archaeology of presence. Each piece becomes threshold and witness: I was here. She translates what the senses gather in solitude, understanding that drawing and painting are sculptural acts, shaping perception itself within the two-dimensional field.
Slowness. The marvel of seeing. These are her origins.
Art reminds the self to expand, to become. Trained in movement therapy and the body's intelligence, Laura brings an embodied knowledge to her practice—not as trend, but as Renaissance inheritance, as healing principle. Her work holds the question: What does awareness yield when we create from the threshold between inner and outer worlds?
She traces spaces, time, the unfolding human journey. Her studio becomes a record of transformation. Sensory, somatic, archetypal.
As an associate member of Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, and the College Arts Association of America, she pushes her artistic boundaries by emphasizing tangible, connective experiences with objects, spaces, and people.
In her teaching and facilitation roles, Laura brings a playful curiosity to the creative process for fellow artists.
Laura attended the Florence Academy of Art certificate program in 2012 and returned to Italy for their MA program in 2023-2025. She graduated a merit scholar in the Master of Arts program in 2025 in Florence.
Her previous experiences in art were contemporary painting and drawing programs at ETSU and UTC with a focus on phenomenology and color theory according to Josef Albers.
Her mentors in movement played a large role in the eventual self-healing, the movement studio practice Laura formerly ran in Seattle, and the artwork that Laura currently creates. Those mentors were kinesiologist and former advanced trainer at LBD Marie José Bloom-Lawrence, former professional dancer and movement expert Jennifer Gianni, movement expert and neuropoetic coach Casey-Marie Herdt, and movement specialist Sydney Craig.
Overall, the concensus of Laura’s work explores the overlapping impressions of our human senses.
Portrait Commissions
Creating contemporary portraits and works that honor classical techniques through oil paint and dry media
Mentorships
Laura’s mantra with her students Observe.Work. Process. Grow
Though teaching principles are part of Laura’s approach to learning, she blends those tools with intuitive and expressive forms to give the student their primary mode of operating with their tools.
