Oil Painting
Laurie alberts
STUDIO INFO
I live and paint at home in Westminster, Vermont but as this year’s Putney Craft Tour fellowship awardee, I will be located in the In Situ Polyculture Art Barn on Hartley Hill during the tour.
The barn has a step-up from ground level. A ramp will be available for those who need one. The barn also has a second-floor space which visitors are welcome to explore, but no ramp or elevator. The barn is heated. Located at the top of a narrow drive, parking at the top of the hill on the property is limited. For able-bodied folks who are willing, parking at the bottom of the drive and strolling up the hill can be a good option! For folks with limited mobility or any kind of disability, please drive up to the top where there will be some marked diagonal spaces in front of the barn.
CONTACT Laurie
Email: lasalberts@gmail.com
Website: lauriealbertspainter.com
Telephone: (802) 380-3853
Address: In Situ Polyculture
20 Gordon Heights
Westminster, VT 05158
purchasing my work
You may purchase my work at the craft tour, or by contacting me directly by email at lasalberts@gmail.com, or through contacting me via my art website https://lauriealbertspainter.com
Layers of Light
Urban Gardens
Yellow Fields Beyond 300
My first creative incarnation was as a novelist and professor of creative writing. After publishing eight books, I started painting and never looked back. If my writing tended toward the grittily realistic, painting has permitted me to transcend the strictly representational in favor of the emotional content of landscapes I’ve inhabited or imagined.
First Winter Storm Approaching
Foggy Morning Row
A Turn in the Brook
Ledges 300
Six months a year I row my 26’ long solo scull on a stretch of the Connecticut River running between Vermont and New Hampshire. The river – in all its seasons and permutations – often appears in my work. Painting and rowing are complementary: hard work, joy, and a sense of expansion from being immersed in the light and shapes of a real place I make my own through creating images.
Vilas Bridge Gothic
Requiem for the Atlantic Salmon, BF Dam
Canal Street 2
I frequently use cold wax medium mixed with oil paint because it increases luminosity and its thickness and malleability allow for scraping, scratching, and the overlay of colors and textures. Its very imprecision creates possibilities–directions I might not have intended, images unforeseen, paths I want to follow.
