Laura Van Horne is a mixed-media artist who works in encaustic, acrylic, watercolor, ink, resin, paper and textiles.  She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and moved to Seattle, WA in 1994.  She studied at Pratt Fine Art Center, in Seattle, WA.  Laura has participated in a number of group and solo art shows over the past 25 years.  She owns Gray Sky Gallery, in the historic Pioneer District of Seattle, WA and is represented by SAM Gallery in Seattle, Third and Wall Art Group, as well as Summit Gallery in Park City.

All I ever wanted to do was create.  Growing up in a sports-oriented household presented as quite the challenge.  Rarely was there paper in the house so I had to be resourceful in finding my own supplies.  Into the woods I went to collect flowers to press and later glue to scraps of wood.  I used my aunt’s old nail polishes to paint rocks in my backyard.  Nothing was smooth and pretty, all my creations were rough and unusual.  I feel this lack of art supplies had a huge hand in making me the artist I am today.  I absolutely love mixed media and texture, spending much of my time experimenting with different mediums and surfaces.  My ink and resin pieces are more meditative works and, as a result, they appear organic in nature. I see so many different things in them, geodes, science experiments, human cells, or orbs.