Bio
I’m Lauri Harrington and I began painting in earnest about four years ago. I have always been a bit creative and when I was a young girl, my father brought home telephone wire for us to play with. I made an entire farm of horses and people out of that wire, using yarn as the horses tails. I went on to drawing horses from there.

As an adult, I enrolled in the fine arts program at a college in Traverse City, Michigan, taking drawing, design and pottery. I realized that becoming an artist was probably not the path to riches for me so I turned to getting a business degree. After moving to Colorado, the beautiful scenery inspired me to take up the arts again and I began taking pottery classes in Boulder and Golden, CO. Then after retiring in Colorado, I began sketching again and also took up making landscape quilts.

Since moving to Wickenburg, I have taken watercolor (my first love), acrylic and oil painting classes. I have been juried into the Wickenburg Art Center for mixed media and have exhibited in a number of shows there.

Now, I often find myself watching and practicing watercolor techniques on YouTube. It’s an interest rabbit hole that I throughly enjoy. I am currently working on a landscape quilt of aspen trees and preparing for upcoming shows at the Wickenburg Library and Wickenburg Art Center.