Lara Loutrel works primarily in intaglio printmaking and sculpture. Experimental in her approach to techniques and forms, she creates abstract spaces using black ink, white paper, wood, paint and gold.

After studying printmaking at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in the late 1990s she worked in etching, creating abstract, minimal landscapes and cityscapes.

In the mid-2000s she began experimenting with geometric, black and white wall-mounted constructions. Her interest shifted to exploring ideas of optical illusions, unknown forms with a lot of energy, arrangements which evoke a big disturbance.

Her recent work continues these ideas as wall-mounted painted wood sculptures; and in prints that combine drypoint, relief, and gold leaf.