About the Artist

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

She creates expressive, layered paintings inspired by resilience, nature, and the quiet moments where light breaks through darkness.

Her work is shaped by lived experience, including navigating chronic illness and caring for someone she loves through cancer. Those experiences have changed how she sees time, energy, resilience, and what it means to keep showing up. Not perfectly, but honestly.

As a beekeeper and gardener, Laurie is deeply connected to the idea that growth isn’t always visible, but it’s always happening. The quiet rhythm of the seasons, the hum of the bees, and the beauty found in ordinary moments continually remind her that hope often grows beneath the surface. That philosophy finds its way into her paintings through layered textures, expressive brushwork, and moments of quiet detail—especially in the eyes, where she focuses on connection, presence, and emotion.

She works in layers, beginning with expressive acrylic underpaintings before building with oil, allowing each painting to evolve naturally. Many pieces also incorporate mixed media elements, including hand-applied collage papers, dimensional textures, and intentional crackle effects that add depth and invite viewers to experience the work beyond the image itself.

Laurie’s hope is that when someone stands in front of one of her paintings, they feel invited to pause—to breathe, reconnect with themselves, and discover that even in life’s hardest seasons, beauty, resilience, and light can still be found.

This work isn’t about perfection.

It’s about showing up.