Laura Letchinger grew up in a small rural town west of Chicago, where she spent much of her early childhood filling an oversized basement chalkboard with intricate nature-based drawings—creative seeds nurtured by the overwhelming freedom she felt playing in nearby fields and forests. Whether riding horses in her younger years, experiencing collective flow on the basketball court in high school, or biking and distance running the streets of Chicago in her twenties, these core connections with expansive energy inform the canvases she instinctively explores today. Her artistic foundation was deepened by decades of classical piano and insights into the human condition were gained from studying pre-medicine and psychology. Environmental activism and an intense curiosity about the spiritual nature of being human established a lifelong sensitivity to energetic balance and intuition. Much of her work is a contemporary blend of expressionism and post-impressionism—an immersive dance with source energy that brings her paintings to life and radiates into the spaces they inhabit.  

After moving to Los Angeles in 1996, Letchinger began making art consistently in 2013, beginning with portable watercolors while waiting in her son and daughter’s school pick-up lines. Self-taught, her artworks have been collected and placed within the U.S. and internationally by individuals, designers, art consultants, public art agencies, architects, and real estate developers, and she has been represented by galleries in Los Angeles and Houston.