Lauren Quist - In The Garden

Lauren Quist - In The Garden

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    Showing at WEND November and December 2021

    West Seattle Art Walk November 11 and December 9 of 2021

    Inspired by the world around her, Lauren Quist explores how light touches various surfaces through her mixed media paintings. Embroidery floss and acrylic paint interact with each other while light highlights the different textures in her art and creates harmony with contrasting mediums. Influenced by illustrative line-based art and impressionism, she combines these styles to bring forth the subject of her work.

    With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, she creates art that deals with the documentation of moments in time and the question of how these moments can be presented. Her mixed media artworks are based on these moments and from images in her imagination.

    Lauren is an award-winning mixed-media artist from Seattle, WA. Although she studied art at the University of Washington, she is a self-taught painter and embroiderer. She created her first mixed media painting for her senior studio using oil paints and embroidery floss on canvas. Since then, she has participated in several art exhibits in the Pacific Northwest showcasing her mixed media work.

    With each piece of art she creates, she begins by taking a photograph. She sketches it, paints it, then adds additional texture with embroidery, allowing light to dance dynamically on her canvas.