Laura Orr

Laura Orr is a Kansas City based artist who often references her East Coast roots in shoreline and nature works. Laura began painting during her years as a Critical Care Paramedic in Connecticut as a decompression practice. The hand steadiness needed with the lessened life-or-death outcome ignited a creative fire that continued for years. A self-taught and continually progressing visual artist, Laura started entering shows and galleries with watercolor paintings, mostly shorelines and birds with an evolution of nature pieces. What was once a small cathartic hobby expanded to acrylics, oils, and eventually large-scale murals. With a move to KC only a few years ago, Laura left the medical field to start a mural business, Harpy Art Studio. Continuing her original works in studio, she expresses with illustrative pieces demonstrating realistic representation of familiar subjects in familiar places, with questions of the representation itself