Laurie Sucharda 501 W. Oakland Ave Port Washington, WI 53074 fullmoonartist@yahoo.com

262-284-4852

Born: Oconto, WI 1961

Artist Statement:

     I am drawn to art because it gives me the ability to show others what I see and feel walking around in my daily life. When someone asks what media I use, I will answer oil paints. But I also love watercolor, pencil, pastel, collage, sewing, doll making, fibers and quilting, even crayon if it helps to create my images. I make art journals as a way of exploring themes and ideas for my paintings.

     For 10 years, I worked as an art therapist, helping others to find and explore their creativity. An intermittent illness has brought the passion to exhibit and share my own art work back to center stage of my art career. Working with people who live with chronic illness and then dealing with my own, I find there is enough angst , depression, anger and other common art themes in the world. I want to celebrate the joy, beauty laughter, fun, and irony that is present. And I want to show you the world as I see it. I have a "lazy eye". What that means physically is that my eye "wanders" and I do not have three dimensional vision. Various advisors and experts told me I would never make a good artist because of this. Well, I am here to say, art like beauty, really is in the eye of the beholder.

     I paint gardens because I love the color and growth that happens each spring, with or without our help. I paint my kitchen utensils, quilts and other collectibles to remember and celebrate the home life of my grandmothers, myself, and many other women have lead. I put fantasy in my paintings to remember and celebrate a time when I believed in fairys, moon maidens and the fun found in myth and children’s faith. And I paint wild nature, the escape, from the middle of a friend’s fishing boat. I also paint my ideas, dreams, and wishes, that without art, others would never see.