Laurie Harden
Laurie Harden is an illustrator and painter, and has been, it seems, all her life. It is her first love and abiding passion. She works in Oils, Gouche, Pastels, Charcoal & Pencil.
Laurie studied at Kansas City Art Institute and Rhode Island School of Design where she graduated with a BFA in Illustration. She resides in Northern New Jersey. Her work is widely exhibited, awarded, commissioned and collected. An artist with a international clientele, she also teaches art privately and at several art associations.
RESUME
Illustration Clients include; Harper & Collins, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Holt Reinhart & Winston, Grossit & Dunlop, Pearson Learning, Lerner Publishing, Antheneum Books, Globe Fearon, Cobblehill Books, Avon Books, Aladdin Paperbacks, People's Publishing Group, Scholastic Magazines, Cricket Magazine Group, Time/Life, Science Fiction Age, Dell Magazines, Redbook, N.Y. Times, N.Y. Daily News.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I endeavor to capture people and places as they are at the moment. I strive to portray the emotions and concerns that traverse all cultures, societies and races. I am fascinated by the ethnic and cultural differences while embracing the universality that connects all of mankind despite the differences.
I try to express more than a physical likeness. Whether it is a mood passing over a face, or an atmospheric change that settles over a landscape, there is an aura that is radiated. This aura is as much a part of the person or place as their out right appearance. It is this totality of persona that I strive to preserve in my figurative and scenic works.
I‘m compelled to paint, to try to understand the way light falls on a person or object & depict it. I wish to express the mood or fleeting emotion of a scene in such a way that the viewer can experience the feeling that captured me and caused me to put brush to canvas.
Laurie studied at Kansas City Art Institute and Rhode Island School of Design where she graduated with a BFA in Illustration. She resides in Northern New Jersey. Her work is widely exhibited, awarded, commissioned and collected. An artist with a international clientele, she also teaches art privately and at several art associations.
RESUME
Illustration Clients include; Harper & Collins, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin, Holt Reinhart & Winston, Grossit & Dunlop, Pearson Learning, Lerner Publishing, Antheneum Books, Globe Fearon, Cobblehill Books, Avon Books, Aladdin Paperbacks, People's Publishing Group, Scholastic Magazines, Cricket Magazine Group, Time/Life, Science Fiction Age, Dell Magazines, Redbook, N.Y. Times, N.Y. Daily News.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
I endeavor to capture people and places as they are at the moment. I strive to portray the emotions and concerns that traverse all cultures, societies and races. I am fascinated by the ethnic and cultural differences while embracing the universality that connects all of mankind despite the differences.
I try to express more than a physical likeness. Whether it is a mood passing over a face, or an atmospheric change that settles over a landscape, there is an aura that is radiated. This aura is as much a part of the person or place as their out right appearance. It is this totality of persona that I strive to preserve in my figurative and scenic works.
I‘m compelled to paint, to try to understand the way light falls on a person or object & depict it. I wish to express the mood or fleeting emotion of a scene in such a way that the viewer can experience the feeling that captured me and caused me to put brush to canvas.