About The Artist

Laura Gurton, born into a family of artists, has always been working in one medium or another. After studying Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts, she exhibited and sold her glass art in galleries in New York City and New Hope, Pennsylvania. Later she returned to school to study Art Education and became the Art Specialist at the Brooklyn Children's Museum and then taught high school at a specialized program for the arts. She rose to become Assistant Principal of Fine Arts, Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, NY. Although Laura loved her students, and found Art Education a worthwhile pursuit, she missed concentrating on her own work. In 2004 Laura was determined to get back to her painting. She left her supervisory position to focus on her own development. Moving to the Hudson Valley, inspired by its natural beauty and artist communities, her art has flourished. Within this time she has developed her own style and shows her paintings regularly in a variety of different venues throughout the Hudson Valley, New England, New York City and New Jersey. Laura has been recognized on the worldwide stage by being chosen to participate in Personal Structures, an official part of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venezia 2013, Art Southampton and has recently been added to the roster of artists in the galleries, Fresh Paint, in California, Theo Ganz in Beacon, NY, and Beacon Shortwave in Stone Harbor, NJ. My paintings, The Unknown Species Series and The Bits and Pieces Series, which are digitally manipulated photos of the paintings, can all be seen on my web site www.Lauragurton.com