Woven, collaged and layered, found and prepared papers create surfaces that invite your "eyes to touch.” Originally I studied fashion design; my fascination with texture remains. Native of Syracuse, NY, recently established in Rochester, NY, and now residing in the Greenville, SC, area.

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News: my fans are now featured on the e-commerce site, the Fine Arts Company.

News from the North: supporting WXXI's annual auction in Rochester, NY; returning for a third year to exhibit in Stephen Merritt's Art in June.

News from the South: autumn workshops at the Pickens County Museum of Art & History: Collage, Graphite Expanded, Suminigashi & Sumi-e; Beginning Drawing class at the Greenville County Museum of Art; Beginning Drawing and Introduction to Colored Pencil at the Spartanburg Art Museum.

 I am a former art review blogger for Artkestry, and a former drawing instructor of teens to seniors at the Memorial Art Gallery Creative Workshop, and of colored pencil at Otter Rock Studio, Rivers Run, and the Gables at Brighton.

All images and text copyright 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Christina Laurel.