About Laura
Watercolour artist. Mother. Reader of long novels. Born in Belgium, raised in France, found a home in Colorado.
Hi there! I was born to American parents in Belgium and spent all of my growing-up years in Lyon, France. I lived in Chicago for a long time and now I am raising a family in Colorado. At this point in my life, I have spent exactly the same number of years in the US as in Europe.
This is my childhood home. We lived in a little village outside the city, surrounded on three sides by orchards. A nearby field contained a section of two-thousand-year-old aqueducts which used to carry water from the surrounding countryside to the city known as Lugdunum during the Roman empire. These I used to climb, snickers in hand, to admire the sunset.
"The home I grew up in was very much a haven, scented with honeysuckle and lavender, its garden humming with the sounds of bees."
I had a blurry photograph for reference and mostly painted the details from memory. Sadly, it no longer exists.
A dear old friend, in Kansas.
This is my husband's childhood home in Topeka, Kansas — the A-frame, a leading character in most of his Kansas stories. A dear old friend from times past. Still an A-frame, it looks different nowadays.
I love painting homes because each one contains a different story— a family home passed down, or a temporary refuge that served a family for a season.
Painting a home is an act of gratitude for the stories it held. Here are just a few of them.
