Laura Elm

Laura's lush and verdant work is an amalgam of ceramics, painting, and digital mixed media— a process that reaches into epochs of historical reference where seemingly incongruent flecks of artistic ore are mined and melded into fluent lyrical visual metaphors.

Her clay work includes functional vessels and sculptural forms overlaid with painterly content that entails multiple firings of slip, stain, and underglaze. Intricate imagery and designs are all done freehand with tiny brushstrokes as if using pen and ink.

Laura has been teaching all things clay forever. Drawing is the fundamental underpinning of her visual approach to life (If you can write you can draw!) and she thoroughly enjoys interacting with students of all levels.

Laura Elm, Artist & Teacher