Laura Nugent

Using a layering technique with acrylic paint and clear matte medium, I build my surfaces in search of visual depth, a personal narrative and exciting color relationships. While my influences include quilts and textiles, I embrace the spontaneity of painting and its generous allowance for sudden alterations of both subject and mood. I find affinity with the artists of the brief “pattern and decoration” movement of the 1970???s. They sought to elevate textile arts as well as non-western folk arts in a sort of challenge to the cold minimalist abstraction of the time. As I do, they created works using a flattening grid, bold color, and imperfect pattern.