Hello! I’m Lara, an emerging digital and mixed media artist, surface pattern designer, and blogger.
I've loved colors, photography, and art since I was a youngster, but it took me three decades to rediscover the joy of art and give it its rightful position in my life.
Through a stroll in the garden in August 2021, camera in hand, contemplating my stagnant business endeavor, I unknowingly embarked on a new journey to becoming an independent artist through close-up photography of flowers.
I create work in the following categories: photography, digital art, drawing, and watercolor painting. Because most of my work contains a digital element, I consider myself primarily a mixed media artist rather than a drawing artist or watercolorist.
I also love to point my camera at the sky and especially enjoy capturing cloud formations that resemble familiar shapes or objects. I try to capture and create art based on beauty, design, and diversity found in nature, mostly using my own photos as references if I use any at all.
“You should make it your ambition to live peacefully, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands…” “Then your way of life will win respect…and you won’t have to depend on anyone else for what you need.” – 1 Thessalonians 4:11,12 NTE, GW
I have found that it’s not always as easy as that for artists, but God, the original Artist, is faithful, and that’s why I keep going.
Improvement requires support; I would greatly appreciate yours.
Currently situated in South Africa, my home workplace serves as both an office and a studio for me as a full-time artrepreneur. As an ardent traveler, I aspire to explore the world as an artist.
Some of my favorite art styles (and artwork by artist) include:
* realism (The Game of Chess by Sofonisba Anguissola)
* impressionism (Two Sisters by Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Meditation by Leonid Afremov)
* expressionism (Inger on the Beach by Edvard Munch)
* symbolism (Der Spaziergang by Marc Chagall)
* and abstract art (A Golden Silence by Elizabeth Williams).
This may change as I learn about and view more art. With my own watercolor work, I am moving more and more towards abstract realism.
I hope that at least one of my pieces of art may help to speak to the heart, comfort, or bring joy.
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