Laura Olson | Portfolio

Laura Olson | Caravan

an online portfolio

The dictionary defines a caravan as "a company of travelers, journeying together." That seems an apt metaphor to describe how I've come to view my work and life as an artist. These drawings, paintings and pastels represent various internal expeditions I've taken over the past several years, explorations of forms, objects, ideas, and, most recently, landscape. They are all traveling companions that have kept me company on my personal journey of creative discovery... more »»

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I am a Transparent Eyeball

This series of landscapes all derive from different areas of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

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Nouns of the Intellect

"All the facts in nature are nouns of the intellect and make the grammar of the eternal language." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work-in-Progress

This photo series documents the progress of one painting, session by session.

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The Petals of My Favorite ...

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted." --Henri Matisse

"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." -- Salvador Dali, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp