"Cloud Dance"
Oil on canvas
32 x 46”

"Country Road"
Oil on canvas
24 x 30”

"Morning Mist"
Oil on canvas
12 x 23”

"Wetlands Sunrise"
Oil on canvas
19 x 24”

Biography:

Laurie Schirmer Carpenter grew up in northwestern Illinois and graduated from Loretto Heights College in Denver, Colorado with a degree in English Literature in 1967.  She returned to school at the University of Colorado, Denver to study art, graduating With Distinction with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History in 1988. She has been painting full time since then.  Her paintings are found in many corporate and private collections nationwide.  When her husband was transferred to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1990 she became reacquainted with her Midwestern roots and developed an interest in the landscape, especially the skies, which are often depicted in her paintings.  Moving to northwestern Indiana in 2006, she continues to paint the land and skies of the Midwest.   

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