“Laura Green creates paintings that resonate with collectors because they balance strong composition with an authentic sense of place and feeling.” - Patric Stillman, The Studio Door Gallerist
Laura Green is a San Diego-based painter creating acrylic paintings of the natural world and children within it as active and fully engaged with the landscape. Green’s energetic composites celebrate childhood as natural, unhurried presence and motherhood as empowered observation. Green holds a BA in Fine Art from UC Santa Cruz, a Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Arts from UC Berkeley Extension (with Distinction), and a Certificate in Art and Creative Process from UCSD Extension.
Green's work has earned recognition in juried exhibitions nationwide, including First Place at Yosemite Renaissance 40 (2025), and inclusion in group exhibits at venues including Oceanside Museum of Art, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Yellowstone Art Museum, and California Art League. Her public art installations appear throughout Southern California, including a permanent commission for UCI Medical Center, a temporary exhibit projects with the City of Glendale, and multiple San Diego County library branches.
Green is a resident artist at The Studio Door in San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood and is represented by Cobalt Gallery with select works available through Sparks Gallery. Her work has been featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune and Imperial Beach News. She paints full-time while raising four children who regularly appear as active subjects in her compositions.
Statement
I am interested in the interactions between people and nature. My work shows young people in imagined landscapes, making space for kids to be seen as whole people with agency and curiosity, rather than just cute or sentimental figures. From a mother's perspective, the children we are raising are often not afforded permanence in our rushed society. In my paintings, these figures exist across different scales of time. This work shows that presence in nature, play, and exploration belong in the landscape as much as the rocks, wildflowers, and wildlife. Inspired by memories of family hikes and road trips, along with my own history of long-distance bicycle journeys, the scenes combine lived experience and observation. As both mother and artist, this practice lets me envision an optimistic future and express the naturalness of being outside and part of nature.