About the Artist

Laurie Christopher is a mixed media and oil artist living and creating in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.

Her work is rooted in resilience and in the choice to keep showing up. Living with chronic illness and walking alongside her husband through cancer have shaped the way she sees the world, not only the difficult parts, but also the beauty, color, strength, and light that exist alongside them. Those experiences find their way into her paintings without defining them, leaving room for each viewer to bring their own experiences and meaning to the work.

Laurie creates expressive, layered paintings inspired by wildlife, people, nature, and the landscape around her. She is drawn to the contrast between strength and vulnerability, darkness and light, and the ways something beautiful can emerge from what is imperfect or unresolved. Eyes often become a point of connection in her work, a place where emotion and story can exist without being fully explained.

Her process begins with expressive underpaintings and builds through oil, mixed media, dimensional texture, collage, crackle, and intuitive mark-making. Increasingly, she incorporates pieces of the Montana landscape around her—prairie grasses, bark, leaves, and organic textures—allowing the places that inspire her to physically become part of the paintings themselves.

Outside the studio, Laurie is a beekeeper and gardener, deeply connected to the rhythms of growth, change, and renewal. Much of what inspires her is found close to home: wildlife, changing seasons, flowers, bees, and the unexpected moments of color and beauty that appear in everyday life.

At the heart of Laurie’s work is a simple belief: difficult things and beautiful things can exist at the same time. Her paintings are an invitation to notice what remains…strength, connection, growth, color, and light and to find something within them that belongs to your own story.

Because sometimes resilience is simply choosing to show up and notice the beauty that is still here.