Laurie McRae
Laurie McRae is an oil painter and fibre artist.
Laurie loves the challenge of painting a variety of subjects, whatever inspires her at the moment. Laurie’s fibre paintings include hooked and needle felted pieces – many incorporating both techniques.
Each hooked painting is a creative journey of letting the textiles colour and texture dictate the final visual effects in her designs. Like her early forbearers who hooked rugs, Laurie incorporates many recycled clothing and materials into my pieces, deconstructing and cutting them into strips either by hand or using a cloth strip cutter. Laurie works on fine linen backing employing different rug hooking styles; realistic and traditional, raised or sculpted.
Laurie is originally from Toronto and has lived in Prince Edward County since 2002. She has studied under several different artists and teachers. Laurie has painted at the Unionville Art Gallery and the renowned Fred Varley Art Gallery also located in Unionville, Ontario.
