An unfinished work hanging  in the overgrown garden   Laura Rice Laura Rice paints large figurative works and portraits that are colorful, poignant, and often humorous. Her portraits are vibrant charicatures, portraying the nature of her subjects through emotive use of color and exaggerated form.  Poses and facial features are also exaggerated to create a sense of the human spirit within. Her freely expressive style reminds the viewer of the expressionistic portraits of Van Gogh and Cezanne, with the addition of an irreverant exuberance.    Her paintings are often charged with an underlying sexuality.  which in some cases comes to the surface in the gestures and postures of her subjects.  Some are wistful and mysterious, others vibrant and lively.  Some are portrayed in languid repose, some in joyous celebration, and some in quite dignity.   Click Here for a look at Laura's Artist's Statement   bathing beauty angst ridden writer The Mistress and the Mechanic     Tweedle Dum, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle David Woman in Red At the Pool