About me

All my work is sparked by a deep need to capture the life force with color, composition, and form, either working with a model, who is sometimes myself, or with objects and plants that mean something to me. The canvas, collage or drawing contains the energy and the history of the process.

Provincetown based, I am a graduate of School of Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS, Boston, with multiple self-directed Returning Residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown. It was my privilege to be part of the inaugural cohort for the Building Capacity Grant through the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod. I am represented by Berta Walker Gallery and my art is in the Permanent Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The

Website: www.laurashabottart.com

Instagram: @laurashabottart.com

Facebook: @laurashabott

Email:  laura@laurashabott.com

www.bertawalkergallery.com

Artists and Models

Artists and Models, my most recent show at Berta Walker Gallery, is about having a life drawing practice over time. The setting is formal; there is a nude model who poses for finite intervals. The drawings are an end expression, a work of art, or fodder and experimentation

All the work is sparked by nature, a person. I am humbled that there is time in my life to work seriously as an artist. A lot had to clear away, mostly within myself, to claim my spot in the creative ethos.

Collages cut, glued, sewn and staples from original work that had not been realized is very freeing. What is incomplete becomes part of a whole that is important to me and expresses freedom.