LAURA CULIC

“My paintings are my response to my deep and abiding love of the wild places of Ontario. I am motivated to paint images, whether representational or abstract, which reflect my profound sense of connection to the rocky and wild Canadian Shield landscape which seems to inhabit me.”

Laura Culic’s distinct aesthetic is built on her use of cold wax painting to represent natural landscapes, imbued with abstracted elements, where she subverts our expectations of this uniquely Canadian genre of wilderness painting. Culic uses innovative mediums and precise mark-making techniques to add body, depth, and transparency to her paintings. At times, she completely shifts the perspective of a landscape by presenting a reflection in a stream, lake, or body of water. Laura’s paintings reveal an intuitive process of adding abstract touches, combined with a sense of restraint, by building layers, then subtracting by scraping and using oil sticks, charcoal, wax crayons, and graphite to create further marks.

As an award-winning painter, Culic’s work is found internationally in many corporate, private, and government collections including the Art Collection of the Government of Ontario. She is an elected member of the Ontario Society of Artists and a recipient of an Ontario Arts Council Grant. Her artwork has been recognized on different occasions as Best in Show and Best in Painting.

Culic received her fine arts training at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto and has honed her craft for over 30 years as an illustrator, mural painter, and fine artist. She currently works from her studio in Toronto.