Laura Holk

Though having had a lifetime of creativity, Laura feels new to the artworld. As of right now, she’d like to perfect her skills with resin to make river tables and counter tops. She’d also like to teach herself how to use a wood lathe. What she creates can be triggered by a feeling or from inspiration from nature. Many days, she looks ot at the landscape and beautiful views from her home and finds color schemes in nature that she seeks to duplicate in a bracelet or necklace.

She often has several pieces in progress at once. Charcuterie boards can take a month or two to complete due to all the sanding prior to other design elements. She does not own a large industrial sander but uses n orbital sander starting with 40 grit sandpaper and working her way up to 3000 grit, a process that can take many days. Her jewelry pieces are a welcome break, and she can sometimes make three pieces of these smaller creations in one day.

It’s too cold to work with resins in the winters here because it won’t cure properly, so she finds herself focusing on jewelry and band saw boxes. Stringing beads is therapeutic for her. Oftentime, she finds herself staring out the winter windows letting her thought swirl around new creative ideas. Sometimes this is done in silence, and sometimes she listens to music, and often she works with her animals nearby. And sometimes daily responsibilities prevent her from creating anything at all.

She started her new craft very basic with medallions of wood as the focal point in a piece of jewelry, then expanded to making unique home goods such as coasters and boards, all with color schemes found in nature and duplicated in her work.