My dear friend Brad Walker has ever so kindly lent me his creative writing for my new Artist Bio! He did a fabulous job and I wanted to share it with ya’ll! Thanks Brad!
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“The quest for truth and authenticity is a messy one. On my journey inward I often find myself spilling over the edges onto the world around me. Some call it a mess. Others call it art. I call it my Creative Spillage.”
Never afraid to make a mess, LAURA Amstutz spills her soul on canvas from her East Nashville studio, relying on relationships, travels, and personal struggles as inspiration for her visual art. LAURA’s deep love for color and texture is immediately apparent in her work. Want to touch? Go ahead—LAURA recognizes that art should be experienced on more than a visual level, for beauty is found even in the most insignificant of textures. Focus with all your senses; she does.
With a Bachelor’s degree in Ministry from Belmont University propping up her easel, LAURA has blended together her love for people with her love of art for her most recent project: creativity classes for women. LAURA teaches all women entering the workshop that they are each creative geniuses simply because they are the work of The Great Creator. Messes aren’t only allowed; they’re encouraged: sometimes the most beauty emerges from the biggest mess, LAURA explains, citing Christ’s redemption story as evidence. Creative messes stimulate the workshop experience, building community and allowing each participant to experience the world—without expectations, without rules—through each others’ spilled creations.
If she’s not painting, you might find LAURA frequenting local coffee shops in paint splattered clothes and cowboy boots. Painting since the age of five, LAURA doesn’t make art; she lives it.
LAURA’s life verse – Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers righteousness on you.
Hosea 10:12 (NIV)
Laura,
I love your bio, and not because Brad wrote it. I love it because I can see you as I read it and feel your passion for your art. I wish you great success in touching and affecting many lives through your art and your heart.
Love you, Dave