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My paintings are abstract explorations of nostalgia, shaped by a desire to reconnect with memories, emotions, and fleeting moments. Through the intuitive layering of colors, shapes, and mark-making, I create a push and pull between these elements, keeping some vivid, while others fade into the background. Building surfaces slowly, adding and subtracting, revealing and obscuring, symbolically echoing the way our own recollections can shift and fragment as we move through life.
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Laura LaRue is a high school art teacher who works and resides with her family in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. She paints primarily with encaustic wax, incorporating oils, mixed media, and ephemera. Although she has been teaching art for over 30 years, she did not discover the art of encaustic painting until much later. First displaying her work at a local gallery in 2011, her work can now be found in private collections and exhibitions across the US and internationally.