About | Laurie Martineau

Short Bio

Laurie’s painting is abstract in style and reflects emotion and energy and intuition. Recent work has been an exploration of bright and bold color and form to heighten the senses and surprise the eye – placing contrasting color together adjacent to harmonious blends of each to take you up and down the spectrum.

Biography

Laurie is a painter and jewelry designer living in Texas. She is a self-taught abstract artist working with acrylic, charcoal, ink and pastel on paper and canvas. She builds layers using paint and drawing with gestural marks until a rich texture evolves with a beautiful history of addition and subtraction. The piece takes on many forms and has a great many faces until a design emerges and a refining process begins. This reduction of elements is both bold and considered, both radical and cautious. Eventually the composition settles, and final adjustments complete the piece. Laurie’s current work reflects the experience of landscape and geology up close in the abstract where straight lines and strata comingle with organic shape and color. Every day is an opportunity to walk in nature near my home to immerse in the natural environment. The paintings juxtapose this natural environment with geometric details that create a disruptive boundary between organic and inorganic elements and color and shape.
Recent work has been an exploration of bright and bold color and form to heighten the senses and surprise the eye – placing contrasting color together adjacent to harmonious blends of each to take you up and down the spectrum.
Using my professional experience working with architecture, real estate and design, I blend my love for composition and balance with abstract artwork, creating modern and contemporary artwork that work in many different styles of homes and commercial properties. Laurie has a degree in Geology and an MBA in Marketing and has been selected in various juried shows in the area.

Resume / CV

Shows and Galleries
Blackchalk Laundry and Home - Fredericksburg, TX
Barnard's Mill Museum and Art Gallery, Glen Rose, TX - ongoing works on display
Wabi Sabi Gallery - 2021-2022 - Glen Rose, TX

Juried Shows
Arboretum Artscape - Spring 2022
Millhouse McKinney - Winter 2022
Music Hill Ranch - 2021-2022 - Ongoing Exhibit - Austin, TX
TAC Paper Works Show - 2021 - The Arts Council of Ft. Worth
A Thrill of Hope December 2021 - Arts Foundation of St. Andrew, Plano, TX
Flite To Freedom 2021 - Dallas, TX
The Gallery 8680 - Frisco, TX - Le Salon 2021
Art Room Ft. Worth, TX - Now Contemporary 2021
Art on The Paluxy - 2021
Art Room Ft. Worth, TX - 4th Annual Small Works Show 2020
Art on The Paluxy - 2020