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Historically, most sky and landscape paintings have focused on rural settings, different from what most of us see in our everyday lives. I enjoy finding the contrast between urban and rural skies, the contrasts being created with a varying horizon line, including no horizon line at all. In addition, I try to create varying contrasts with the subject matter and with the use of unusual color choices. The size and shape of the canvas is important to me. It is my attempt to study the psychological impact of the earth in relationship to the sky on a two dimensional surface.
My paintings are reactions to special moments taken by my camera. I take liberties with the photograph when in the studio. Each work becomes an interaction between me and my memory of the moment, while reflecting on the impact of space, light, distance, color and atmosphere. Paint becomes my language while exploring my own intrigue of the sensation of being personally diminished when experiencing space, the land, and its relationship to the vastness of the sky. Capturing this vastness of space stretches me at times knowing that the painting must hang in an interior space.
My study of cloud and sky is examining the formal and conceptual impact of paint and various tools that I use. In some paintings, I will use glazes to create luminosity and atmosphere, while in others, I will use a more direct approach using brushes, pallet knifes, or an organic or invented tool. Textured land is suggested at times using acrylic polymer. The painting surface is usually linen or canvas, but at times, a smooth clay board is used to communicate a crisp, lighter emotional atmosphere.
By abstracting from reality, the sky may be seen through a new set of lenses. When the work is successful, the painting gives me an understanding of who I am and how I see the world.
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Entrada; Tony Smith, Painting From the Land - 2006
Intensive
Landscape Workshops - Connie Borup - Sun Valley,
Idaho - 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005
Plein Air Painting Workshop - Connie
Borup - Provence, France - June 2003
Figure drawing and sculpture - Paul
and Silvia Davis - Teasdale, Utah - 2002
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Laura
Draper Boardman was raised in Utah. She lives part time
in Salt Lake City with her husband and spends much of her
time at her home in Torrey, Utah—just outside of
Capitol Reef National Park. She shows in Gallery 24 in
Torrey and is active in the arts. She is a member of the
board of directors of the Sale Lake Art Center and a former
member of the board of directors of Artists of Utah, a
not-for-profit website for young artists.
Prior to going back to school at the
University of Utah to receive her BFA in painting and
drawing, Laura owned Boardman Design, a full-service interior
design firm, for seventeen years.
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