About the Artist


Laura Cater-WoodsLaura is a working studio artist with an extensive international exhibition record and numerous awards. Her mixed media and fiber art work is held in public, private and corporate collections. After completing an M.F.A. in Painting (Ohio University, 1990) she began to integrate her love of fabric and thread with her approach to drawing and painting. Her images explore the textures and rhythms of details from the landscape, often interwoven with eccentric grids.
In addition to Public Art Projects, Percent For Art Commissions, and gallery exhibitions, Laura teaches nationally for conferences, guilds, shops and private groups. Nominated for Professional Quilter’s Teacher of the Year, 2004 and 2006, she is known as a nurturing and inspiring facilitator who offers highly personalized instruction. She is also a Creativity Coach (trained by Eric Maisel, Ph.D.) and works with private clients: writers, musicians and visual artists. In 1998-99 she was honored with a Montana Arts Council Fellowship in Visual Arts, Mixed Media.

Artist Statement

Marks left by time and the elements fascinate me. I am obsessed with the idea that time in its abstract sense is reflected in diverse and seemingly opposite ways. Manipulating cloth, paint and surface allows me to explore formal and conceptual issues and to find unexpected metaphors in the process.

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