Lauren Adams Art Studio

Lauren Adams, an oil painter based in Knoxville, Tennessee, earned her BFA in Art Education with a concentration inPainting from The University of South Carolina. She dedicated 20 years to teaching visual art in East Tennessee public schools. Her painting techniques are deeply rooted in Flemish and Dutch archival oil methods, which she continues to employ, even though her subjects often deviate from traditional themes.

Adams is currently creating sister bodies of work: Nocturnal Landscapes and The Dream Vortex. In Nocturnal Landscapes, she explores the nature of what a landscape can define by painting the marks left from someone’s place of rest, while The Dream Vortex explores the journey into the subconscious dream realm.  

She takes comfort in the fact that the subject of sleep and dreaming is a universal activity that transcends time, class, race, religion, or location on the globe.  This universal vignette of sleep, rest, and the dream world gives peace to not only the artist, but many of the viewers.

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