Laurie SkantzosLaurie Skantzos is a mixed media painter living in Kitchener Ontario. She studied fine art at University of Waterloo and since then her painting style has evolved towards deeply layered abstracts and semi-abstracts. She incorporates a wide variety of materials and media in her work. Japanese paper and tissues, powdered pigments, lino block printing, acrylic paint and oil sticks are some of her favorites.
Laurie’s process is fairly intuitive, at turns building up and scaling back, and usually working on several pieces at the same time. Lately, strange urban “ landscapes” have been emerging and co-existing among lush organics. A quote from The Little Prince - “what is essential is invisible to the eye” – has been rolling around the back of her mind lately and she’s been wrestling with that thought… attempting to make the invisible visible…
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