Laurie's most recent work is concerned with exploring the surface with encaustic paint (hot beeswax and pigment). It is the poetics of materiality and process that is the driving force in the work.

The work is concerned with the surface whether it is embracing the brushstroke, opposing it, scraping back layers, or creating optical depths.

Beeswax

The combination of biology and energy is astonishing, for it takes two million flowers to yield one pound of honey, and six to ten pounds of honey to yield one pound of wax.

I have chosen beeswax as a painting material to depict the geological forms of the landscape from an aerial perspective.

From above one can observe the patterns and systems that are formed by our natural world.