Laura Carstoiu

Laura has been passionate about painting since childhood and moved quickly from finger-painting to a Japanese brush before she was 10 years old. Her first formal exhibit was at the Norton Arts Festival, in Massachusetts and she received a Bachelor's of Fine Art from Boston University in 1971. After studying with Boston Artist, Rick Harlow of “The Elder’s Project” Laura began to explore on a larger scale in abstract form.

Inspired by the California Impressionists and the native terrain, Laura moved from Boston to the West Coast of California in 2004 where she could be more intimately connected to the natural landscape and intense lighting. It was there that laura began to refine her canvas and speak in the traditional language realism with an impressionistic style. Laura kept an active membership with the Escondido Art Association in Northern San Diego for 15 years before relocating back to the East Coast and the beautiful full spectrum of Virginia’s Piedmont Region.