Through her work, Laury is both a therapist, and expressive artist. Laury found play to be only thing that can fill the liminal space between knowing and feeling. Through her abstract expressive paintings, she seeks to express where words reach their limitations. She paints through experiences of raw feeling, seeking to unmask and reclaim the freedom of childhood.

Her practice is only interested in process, in this very moment right here and now, and is deeply shaped by her creative and play based therapeutic approach. Simply, her art/work expand into one another. She believes strongly in the freedom in being more than one thing and lives her life as a multidisciplinary artist.

Her current collection, CHILDS PLAY seeks to bridge gaps of connection, where feelings are called to move through mark, mess, color. Laury alchemizes lived-and-listened-to experiences of divergence through acrylic and charcoal over canvas. 

Through her work, Laury is in a constant process of orienting to the unknown, in returning again and again to the present moment— embrace, reject, repeat. To Laury, the canvas takes form and becomes an object, related to. Through being allowed to become and form, her body of work acts as a holding space for experiences of unmasking, growing up, and reviving childhood. To Laury, painting is a life or death experience, where the work holds everything she and those she is in relationship with can not fully contain, with words, alone.

CHILDS PLAY answers the call for connection. To Laury, painting is the answer to the space between being understood and being felt. With painting, Laury transforms experiences of suffering into felt, layered expressions. Her work invites the viewer into relationship with not knowing, with being met with only the surface, and feeling more than what is seen.

She often works in layers, and when she becomes attached to the beauty in a piece, will often layer over it, leaving only small areas exposed. Through this process, she reveals an experience of masking and unmasking, shifting from states of active doing towards being with. Some works come quickly, and others are the product of years of work.

She prefers to work large, and find herself literally lost within the work. Painting while sitting on the canvas allows Laury to situate her self and her body within the greater body of her work. Her process is deeply physical as much as it is emotional. Each painting holds all it can hold, as Laury pushes her work past aesthetic limitations. The divergence of mood and variation of character within her work pushes the viewer to move from spaces of judgment to places of openness and feeling.

CHILDS PLAY is a growing body of work, a timeless space, a dream space where time is experienced differently. Where being lost is welcomed, and embraced. Where fear and pain are expressed and transformed and held with meaning that requires deep feeling on our part.

CHILDS PLAY invites a sense of permission and spaciousness to come as we are, to be witnessed, mirrored, and radically accepted for all of who we are, so we may be inspired to transform our relationships to ourselves, our communities, and our world.

To view a work of Laury is to re-enter into the often abandoned and dusty inner spaces of our childhoods. To view a work of Laury is to be met with immense emotional range and to be immersed in pure heart.