Laurelin Gilmore

Laurelin Gilmore is best known for her fantasy oil paintings that blend animal or insect attributes with the human form. More recently, her work blends the subject and the environment itself. The artist uses realism to invite the viewer to suspend disbelief, and fantasy elements to expand on themes of feminine power, the habitation of the planet, and of the body. She says, “I’m interested in the perceived separateness of humans and the natural world from which we can’t actually divorce ourselves, the power and beauty of aloneness, individuality, and the celebration of inherent human power.” Though human beings have come to celebrate the potential of the synthetic, the artist reminds us that we are still deeply connected to the organic.

Though mostly self-taught, Ms. Gilmore earned an Associate of Fine Arts degree from Sacramento City College where she studied painting, portraiture and figure study. Her work has won awards from the Sacramento Fine Art Center, the California State Fair and University Art. She has been featured in many publications including the Sacramento News & Review, Inside, Submerge, Dream Broad and Comstock’s magazines. She has shown all over the United States, and her work was recently featured on Showtime’s ‘The L Word: Generation Q’.

Laurelin is a painter, writer, mixed media artist, and sculptor. She is also co-owner of the region’s only fine art book bookstore, Amatoria Fine Art Books, in Midtown, Sacramento. She keeps a working studio at Sacramento’s Verge Center for the Arts. She is represented by Artize Gallery in LaQuinta, California.

Photo Credit: Eddie Walker