Laurie De Camillis
Laurie De Camillis has exhibited in solo, group, and museum shows across Canada and the United States. More recently, she has exhibited in New York City and the Boston International Fine Art Show with the Canadian Art Collective.
The American Art Collector magazine highlighted Laurie in their “Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Canada” in October 2012.
Laurie’s work has been purchased by many Canadian Corporate Collections.
Laurie is a founding member of the Canadian Art Collective and currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Choosing a spot and painting plein air allows me to examine the complex tangle and awesome relationships that make up nature in the wild. The act of painting allows me to slow down and to realize how very small my existence is, even though it is an eternity to me. I see my place squeezed between the one-day existence of the Mayfly while sitting on the 4-billion-year-old Precambrian rock, our Canadian Shield. I am but a speck in the universe, but I can capture the moment.
After a lifetime of painting in my studio, I now find myself painting plein air, oil paintings completed in one sitting, on site, no longer being separated by a drawing or a photograph, or even the studio, but engaging directly with nature - in the moment.
By making decisions one moment after another, I translate my observations with paint until the 1-foot square panel is complete. Each stroke of the brush is immediate, deliberate, necessary, and final, just like the moment itself.
Laurie De Camillis has exhibited in solo, group, and museum shows across Canada and the United States. More recently, she has exhibited in New York City and the Boston International Fine Art Show with the Canadian Art Collective.
The American Art Collector magazine highlighted Laurie in their “Art Lover’s Guide to Collecting Fine Art in Canada” in October 2012.
Laurie’s work has been purchased by many Canadian Corporate Collections.
Laurie is a founding member of the Canadian Art Collective and currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Choosing a spot and painting plein air allows me to examine the complex tangle and awesome relationships that make up nature in the wild. The act of painting allows me to slow down and to realize how very small my existence is, even though it is an eternity to me. I see my place squeezed between the one-day existence of the Mayfly while sitting on the 4-billion-year-old Precambrian rock, our Canadian Shield. I am but a speck in the universe, but I can capture the moment.
After a lifetime of painting in my studio, I now find myself painting plein air, oil paintings completed in one sitting, on site, no longer being separated by a drawing or a photograph, or even the studio, but engaging directly with nature - in the moment.
By making decisions one moment after another, I translate my observations with paint until the 1-foot square panel is complete. Each stroke of the brush is immediate, deliberate, necessary, and final, just like the moment itself.
