Laura Culic
Laura Culic is a full time painter who lives in Toronto, with her partner and three children.
Born in 1961 in the area that is now Mississauga, Ontario, Laura's formative childhood and teen summers were spent at the family cottage on Georgian Bay. The time spent there, and long trips in the car, gazing upon Ontario fields, engendered in her a love of nature, which in turn became a love of drawing and painting the land. Laura studied illustration and fine art at the Ontario College of Art and Design from 1981 to 1985. She worked part time as an illustrator through the following twelve years, while raising her children. As they grew and became more independent she expanded into professional mural painting, and gradually moved full time into fine art. Laura is an accomplished watercolour painter – she is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour - but she finds oil paint to be the ideal medium to express the poetic and evocative qualities integral to her work. For Laura, landscape continues to be the preferred subject matter. The landscape provides the natural esthetically pleasing divisions of horizon, sky, trees and water. Laura's paintings of Ontario depict our home; intrinsically beautiful places that are often taken for granted; they are a reminder of the poetry, tranquility and fragility of our environment. Laura regularly heads north to hike, camp and to gather oil sketches, photos and inspiration from the land.
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