I feel like thereโs a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, Iโm completely in this world of possibility.
Laura OwensMost people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.
Laura OwensFor me, at some point, the idea of struggling through the process was not as interesting as doing tests and executing the painting after I figured out all of its elements and how they were going to work together.
Laura OwensIn art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.
Laura OwensIโm not sure a lot of other people would walk up to the same artwork and see the shadow on the personโs face from the hat and be like โDo you see that!โ Itโs about noticing things that interest you, and that definitely happens with the natural world as well.
Laura OwensThere tends to be a sort of mundane quality to what I select - things from around the house, around the studio. I'm not ashamed of the craft shop - the art supply store - and I don't need my work to be anti-art store, but I also believe in using things that are just sort of around - it makes sense to me.
Laura Owens