PROFILE

Laurel has taught classes in oil painting in California, alabaster rock sculpture in Colorado as well as clay and rock sculpture and pottery at San Juan College in New Mexico. She has been highly acclaimed in “South West Art” magazine, and has entered numerous juried shows in the Greater Western United States, winning multiple awards too numerous to mention. Her work is proudly displayed in private collections around the world.

REVIEW

Laurel Collins, artist par excellence, creates an incredible buffet feast for your artistic palette as a fantastically multi-talented, cutting edge new-age artist, whose love for her work is obvious by her dedication to perfection through excruciating concentration, producing precision craftsmanship. Mo matter what artistic medium is used, attention to detail and creative uniqueness is paramount in each and every piece. Her expansive abilities enable her art to shine in alabaster rock sculpture, clay sculpture, pottery, watercolors, chalks, acrylics and oils (which are her favorite), on paper, canvas and full wall murals.

Her many varieties of artistic expression capture images of beauty recording them for posterity. This is especially true regarding her portraits honoring the famous and non-famous with their own personal unseen totem animal (i.e. Low-self helper, protector and companion, which we all have). With splashes of color she dances in seascape sunsets, and through underwater panoramas timelessly captures the dwellers of the deep, the dolphins; orcas; belugas; humpbacks; green sea turtles (dangerously near extinction) and her breathtakingly beautiful and overwhelmingly emotionally stirring mermaids (which are extinct).