About The Artist

Laura Norris is a native of Greenville, South Carolina and attended the University of Georgia where she received a BFA in Painting in 1994. After spending summers in Wyoming, Colorado, and a year in Montana, Laura was pulled to the southern mountains of her youth. Laura moved to Asheville in 1996 where she found a job teaching art to middle school students. Feeling passionate about sharing her lifelong love with others she attended Western Carolina University to pursue a Masters in Art Education.

Now an artist and a mother, Laura continues to paint, teaches summer art camps, and creates commissions as she raises her twin sons and daughter with her husband, Dan north of Asheville in their log home.

Laura paints the things around her others often don't take the time to see... whether it is the birds in the trees or the stranger buying greens at the local farmer's market. Laura gives her subjects new life with her vivid palette and inviting rendering allowing the viewer to experience the simple joys that surround us in our everyday lives.

Laura creates her oil paintings out of her studio in the River Arts District of Asheville, North Carolina.