Master contemporary artist Laura Lee Moreland operates a professional teaching Atelier in Guelph Ontario.
Laura’s earlier work is primarily acrylic on canvas, however she never looked back when she had the opportunity to study in oils under the living Master Paul Richard James whose provenance works back through to the early Italian Renaissance period. The masters above her include such well known artists as, Micheal John Angel (living Master), Pietro Annigoni, Jacques-Louis David, Cigoli, Bronzino, Pontormo and Leonardo Da Vinci. Whilst Laura works primarily classically, in oil; nonetheless, like most creative people, she still enjoys playing with other mediums.
This was not Laura’s first formal training. She has often taken courses, she was educated in Sheridan College, crafts and design where she majored in glass and fabric. She convocated from Queen’s University Arts. She won many bursaries and scholarships, including a $30K millennium scholarship as well as the Barbara Paul Prize, which at the time was the most prestigious award given to female students. Laura also received an award for Best Painting at the prestigious Newmarket Juried Art Show, in 2021.
Before attending Queen’s, Laura spent a number of years as an art dealer, selling her own work along with that of other artists including Pieter Doef and Helen Benda. After Queen’s, she also worked as an art teacher at Munich International School in Bavaria, Germany, which is a school that serves a number of royal families and European elite.
Her work was selected and used in the movie Fault as well as on the cover of an eco travel magazine in Brazil to highlight the Kingston area. Her work has been seen on local, provincial and national stages. She has participated in countless shows, both shared and solo and her work hangs all over the world. Worth noting that in 2018 Laura and seven of her students pieces were selected out of all artists in Ontario to hang at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Impressively, eight of the selected 52 selected paintings, showing off excellence in Ontario Art, were from her Atelier.
Laura is a Contemporary Canadian Artist. Her primary interests include: Portraits, Contemporary Realism, Classical Realism, Magical Realism and of course teaching students. She accepts portrait commissions. Prices are as follows: sketches – $200 per person, 8″x8″ single person face and shoulder commemorative mini paintings – $1000. Larger portraits start at $3000/person and work upward depending on the amount of detail you wish to have.
Below is some of Laura’s work.
What People Say
My illustrious lordship, I’ll show you what a woman can do.
Artemesia Gentileschi
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo DaVinci
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
Atelier of Laura Lee Moreland 