Posts Tagged ‘Laura Pelick’

Carmine Magazine: What drives you to create? Also, what inspires you and your work?
Laura Pelick: Everything drives me to create. Emotions, watching a movie, going for a walk outside, a dream, bored at work… As for inspirations, I am very visual (Words as well as seeing images). My childhood movies of Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, anime cartoons on Saturday mornings. I’ll often look at the clouds and see something growing out of it, or see a certain shape of a tree and think I could merge it with the body of a female. My husband is also an inspiration, since we often write stories together and I’ll get ideas from a line he says.

CM: Were you formally trained in art or self taught? Do you think it has helped you or hindered you?
LP: I am both… I drew when I was a little child (according to my grandmother, I started as soon as I could hold a pencil), but from the age of 8 up until graduating from SUNY Alfred, School of Art & Design, I have taken lessons/classes. In Elementary school, once a week I was in the basement of a retired crossing guard’s house, copying pictures of animals from Ranger Rick or calendars.
College was a struggle for me, but it is where I developed my tree/human merging ideas, as well as goddesses, and there are some memories of working with grad students that will eventually get out of my head and onto paper. But, the teachers thought I had too much information in my work and wanted me to paint like THEM, not my like myself. Senior year, for example, my adviser’s critique was “You should draw the sky as a line, and perhaps leave out these trees.”
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