My name is Laura. I am an artist 🎨 - self taught - lots of trial and error happening over here. 🤔 I like to include scripture in a lot of my artwork because it is medicine to my soul ❤️ and I am also pretty ok at doing kid art stuff. 😍❤️ I toy with airbrushing, graffiti tagging, glow in the dark, glitter... I am a child trapped in a grown-up's body! I also love all things vintage, turtles 🐢, glitter ✨, glow-in-the-dark, collage - I am a mixed bag and it shows up in my art! ✌🏼

 

I accepted Christ in July 2004 in Würzburg, Germany, was water baptized in Shinnen, Holland while on a youth retreat in August 2004, and received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the gift of tongues on December 1, 2008. I am, by the grace of God, a fully recovered heroin addict, restored and redeemed into a new creation in Christ. ❤️ I have a passion for those still trapped by strongholds of addiction, which come in many forms. 

 

I have been married for over 20 years to the most tolerant man on the planet, Dustin, and we have 3 beautiful children, Asher, Elia and Phineas. 🧒🏼👧🏼🧒🏻 We have 2 dogs, Falkor and Moon, 11 cats, Tacopotomous, Snowshow, Pollywog, Mama Kitty, Peter Pan, Jane, Klaus, Bunny, Crunchi, Crush and Wednesday, and 3 hermit crabs, Monstro, Mermaid, Coconut and Mr. Galikanokus. I love animals - all living things - and 'tree hugger' as I may be, I don't trust people that don't like animals. 🤨

 

Age has taught me that I am an introvert 🐢, most comfortable in either very small groups or by myself. I have a hard time making new friends, but the older I get, the more content I am with the couple I have (and have had for most of my life) and the less apologetic I am about WHO and HOW I am... because I may not be a perfect child, but I still make my Father smile and I know He's proud of me! ❤️

 

I stopped painting for years, almost 15. I'd become a mom and was fighting the ongoing personal battle with depression I'd known since adolescence. I gave up on being creative because the depression kept winning. I found out that I had a very large brain tumor on my left frontal lobe, which just happens to be the emotional center of the brain, on April 29, 2022. It was removed on May 4, 2022. 🧠🔪

 

If you'd like to hear my personal testimony, click on any of the turtle drawings on this site! 🐢

 

I hope you enjoy what I make as much as I enjoy making it. 🎨❤️