www.LauraMarieAnderson.com

Laura Marie Anderson started her artistic career at the age of 4 as an avid sketchbook artist. By the age of eight, from sticks she found in the yard, she started releasing hidden animals and people, through the lost art of whittling. By age 15 she added clay to her mediums and with that sculpture remained her specialty for two decades completing many portraits. Emulating her Mother and Grandmother, both gifted painters, Laura started oil painting in her early twenties. Her love of people continued and she completed many commissioned portraits. Perplexed when people wanted landscape elements included in their portraits, she decided the only way to learn this was to turn to the landscape. Having read that painting from nature was her best teacher, Laura became an avid plein air painter. Today Laura continues to paint commission portraits and enjoys many hours out in nature painting with her greatest teacher. Her works are in both national and international collections. She lives just over the mountain in Montana with her husband, Karl and Golden Retrievers, Sam & Rex.