This series paintings are  large-format oil paintings that challenges traditional landscape formats through shifting perspectives, layered compositions, and unexpected spatial relationships. Inspired by plein air studies and collaged imagery, Laura invites viewers into landscapes that feel both grounded in observation and altered by memory.

Laura’s paintings begin with the landscape, but they do not remain fixed in familiar formats. Rather than presenting nature from a conventional distance or horizon line, she shifts the viewer’s point of view. Many works are inspired by di sotto in sù, an Italian Renaissance ceiling-painting technique meaning “seen from below.” This perspective allows Laura to reimagine the landscape as unstable and enveloping, creating the feeling of being inside the landscape rather than simply looking at it.

Laura is a Minneapolis-based painter and educator who teaches drawing, painting, and printmaking at Minneapolis College. She began as a plein air painter, learning to paint on her grandfather’s tree farm. Her work continues to grow from observation, incorporating urban plein air, video imagery, and large-scale studio painting. Andrews has exhibited at the Phipps Center for the Arts, Silverwood Gallery, Duluth Art Institute, the Bell Museum, and Red Wing Plein Air.