LAURA GREEN
Wildlife and figures in composite landscapes. Quiet subjects, loud paint.
Bio
"There’s something striking about Laura Green’s paintings: the unapologetic brush strokes, for one, and the vibrant colors, too. Combined, they make for pieces that are bold, in your face and hardly timid. At the same time, if it makes sense, there’s an air of quiet stillness in them, too, probably because of the subject matter, often animals and plants found in the San Diego landscape."
Michael Rocha for The San Diego Union Tribune, May 3, 2026
Laura Green is a San Diego painter working in acrylic. Native wildlife occupies composite landscapes built from saturated color, visible brushwork, and clear structure. The subject stays quiet; the surface does not.
She holds a BA in Fine Art from UC Santa Cruz, a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Arts from UC Berkeley Extension (with Distinction), and a Certificate in Art and the Creative Process from UCSD Extension. First Place, Yosemite Renaissance 40 (2025). Exhibitions include Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Yellowstone Art Museum, Sparks Gallery, and the California Art League. Public work includes a permanent installation at UCI Health Medical Center and civic projects in Glendale and San Diego County.
Select work available through Cobalt Gallery, South Park, and Sparks Gallery, Gaslamp.
Statement
I still remember reaching the summit: temperature dropping, rain turning to snow, a long silence after hours of climbing. I was alone crossing the Pyrenees by bicycle. The landscape stopped being points on a map. I was inside it.
That intensity of encounters in nature is what I recreate in my paintings. For example, the hawk swooping in the rising thermals, a deer turning to listen to a noise or the thrill of finding a wild sheep at the watering hole. I paint native California wildlife in composite landscapes. The places are imagined. The animals are not mascots and not trophies. They are present.
I work in acrylic with saturated color, thick brushwork, and clear value structure so the surface carries force even when the subject does not move. Color follows hour and season. In a culture that rushes past the importance of connecting with the natural world that surrounds us, the paintings insist on staying with it.