The Spirit of Place: Oil Paintings

From The Spirit of Place: Oil Paintings Website:

A full time painter, Laurie Schirmer Carpenter studied art at the University of Colorado, Denver but has deep ties to the Midwest. She has developed a special interest in the land and skies of this region, which are often depicted in her paintings. While her paintings are of particular places or things in nature, they are paintings first ideas made visual. Most of them result from sketches, en plein air paintings and photographs made during a walk or bike ride through the countryside. Using these references, she creates the paintings in her studio that are often a composite of several places. Her oil paintings can be found in many private and corporate collections.