Laurie Avadis

I create delicate paintings with watercolour, ink, acrylic, salt, pencil and mixed media. I love everything that these materials and mediums offer and never know what will happen when I start a new piece. Art is a constant discovery. My subjects will present problems, clues, wrong turns and undiscovered beauty. I use my fingers and blot and change and imagine. I hang them in the house and live with them and sometimes they are finished and sometimes they still need to be discovered/ uncovered. Painting is like a snapshot of a beach, making marks in sand that are covered, changed, and worn away. I paint in my studios in Felpham overlooking the sea and in my home in a remote field in the Loire Valley. I sketch when I travel and when I return. I paint like every new place is my home, every new environment is an undiscovered terrain, and journies with never-ending destinations. Dogs, cats and the occasional princess wander into my artwork from time to time. I am a resident artist in The Montague Gallery in Worthing and Sage and Salt in Petersfield.