Laura Terry grew up in west central Georgia where she fell in love with the red clay and rural landscape. As an undergraduate she studied architecture, but after a trip to Florence, Italy, she decided she wanted to be a painter. She received her MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1998. Since then, she has shown her work in Atlanta, Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles. Fresh Paint in Culver City, CA (http://www.freshpaintart.com/artists/art_terry.html) retains many of her mixed media drawings. Her work is held in private collections in Denver, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Tokyo. She is inspired by the complexity of the landscape, particularly in the fall and winter, when the structure of plants and trees is revealed.
She is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Arkansas. She currently teaches beginning architectural design and landscape painting. She lives with her husband, Kevin, on 8 acres in rural Arkansas surrounded by the landscape that inspires her. In 2006, Laura’s essay about her work “Concealing and Revealing: Painting the Southern Literary Landscape,” was published in the
Overland Review. Download a PDF of the essay here:
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