About
Lara Williams is an award winning contemporary artist residing in Hull MA. Her artwork is held in private and public collections through-out the United States.
She is known for her captivating, emotionally charged Encaustic (pigmented beeswax) and Mixed Media pieces that speak to the delicate balance between nature and human connection. A Master of merging tactile elements, with a deep reverence for the environment, her art weaves together textures, colors, and layers that reflect the intricate beauty of the natural world.
Her art serves as a visual bridge between our modern lives and our dependency on the natural environment for resources, sustenance,
and well-being.
Artist Statement
As early as I can remember I have loved walking in the woods, the smell of pine needles after a rainfall, and the waves crashing against a shoreline. My father, an avid lover of nature, and my mother a beach worshiper passed these appreciations along to me. Growing up on Long Island New York, many of my summer days were spent boating on Long Island Sound, swimming at the beach, and playing in tidal pools. Family vacations consisted of camping, fishing, and hiking through-out New York State, New England, and Maine. At about age 10, I started showing a great interest in the visual arts spending countless hours in my bedroom drawing. My grandparents took notice, and paid for art lessons to support this interest. In High School I dedicated my free time inside the art room. When I was a Junior in High School my art teacher encouraged me to enter into a New York State student art contest. I took her advice, created a piece for the competition, entered it and won an award. This experience gave me the confidence to apply to a college art program, and to continue my journey as an artist.
After 4 years of studying painting, printmaking, and art history I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at SUNY Plattsburgh, New York 92’. From here I moved to Boston Massachusetts where I settled into the local art scene while working at Pearl Art & Crafts in Cambridge. I would work 9-5 by day and paint by night. I started entering juried shows, and exhibiting my work. Showings among others included a Solo show at Sunset cafe’ in Cambridge, and a Juried Show titled Works on Paper at The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA, Juried by Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, New York Magazine, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Art Criticism. Awards around this time included “1st prize for Art” and “1st prize for Watercolor" for The Tower, at the 1996 Pembroke arts festival, Pembroke, MA.
Fast forward, 20+ years, as a working Mom of twin sons, in the Spring of 2019, I returned to showing my art publicly. At about this time I began working with Encaustic; an Ancient medium consisting of beeswax and tree resin that can be used in various painting, printmaking and sculptural techniques, and with multiple different mediums, incorporating the use of a heated palette, heat gun, and or a butane torch.
Inspired by my love of nature I create art that encapsulates special places both imagined and real that are captured in my minds eye, and reflect deep emotional reactions to my life and world events.
I am fortunate to reside by the Ocean in Hull, Massachusetts, and to have a Lakeside cottage in Aroostock County Maine.
Both places are constant sources of inspiration for me.
I create at both my commercial studio space within the Et Wright Building, Rockland, MA and inside my home studio in Hull, MA.
Lara Williams is an award winning contemporary artist residing in Hull MA. Her artwork is held in private and public collections through-out the United States.
She is known for her captivating, emotionally charged Encaustic (pigmented beeswax) and Mixed Media pieces that speak to the delicate balance between nature and human connection. A Master of merging tactile elements, with a deep reverence for the environment, her art weaves together textures, colors, and layers that reflect the intricate beauty of the natural world.
Her art serves as a visual bridge between our modern lives and our dependency on the natural environment for resources, sustenance,
and well-being.
Artist Statement
As early as I can remember I have loved walking in the woods, the smell of pine needles after a rainfall, and the waves crashing against a shoreline. My father, an avid lover of nature, and my mother a beach worshiper passed these appreciations along to me. Growing up on Long Island New York, many of my summer days were spent boating on Long Island Sound, swimming at the beach, and playing in tidal pools. Family vacations consisted of camping, fishing, and hiking through-out New York State, New England, and Maine. At about age 10, I started showing a great interest in the visual arts spending countless hours in my bedroom drawing. My grandparents took notice, and paid for art lessons to support this interest. In High School I dedicated my free time inside the art room. When I was a Junior in High School my art teacher encouraged me to enter into a New York State student art contest. I took her advice, created a piece for the competition, entered it and won an award. This experience gave me the confidence to apply to a college art program, and to continue my journey as an artist.
After 4 years of studying painting, printmaking, and art history I earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at SUNY Plattsburgh, New York 92’. From here I moved to Boston Massachusetts where I settled into the local art scene while working at Pearl Art & Crafts in Cambridge. I would work 9-5 by day and paint by night. I started entering juried shows, and exhibiting my work. Showings among others included a Solo show at Sunset cafe’ in Cambridge, and a Juried Show titled Works on Paper at The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA, Juried by Jerry Saltz, Senior Art Critic, New York Magazine, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Art Criticism. Awards around this time included “1st prize for Art” and “1st prize for Watercolor" for The Tower, at the 1996 Pembroke arts festival, Pembroke, MA.
Fast forward, 20+ years, as a working Mom of twin sons, in the Spring of 2019, I returned to showing my art publicly. At about this time I began working with Encaustic; an Ancient medium consisting of beeswax and tree resin that can be used in various painting, printmaking and sculptural techniques, and with multiple different mediums, incorporating the use of a heated palette, heat gun, and or a butane torch.
Inspired by my love of nature I create art that encapsulates special places both imagined and real that are captured in my minds eye, and reflect deep emotional reactions to my life and world events.
I am fortunate to reside by the Ocean in Hull, Massachusetts, and to have a Lakeside cottage in Aroostock County Maine.
Both places are constant sources of inspiration for me.
I create at both my commercial studio space within the Et Wright Building, Rockland, MA and inside my home studio in Hull, MA.