PERSPECTIVES: Laura K. Orr and The Beatrix Project

Laura K. Orr is a fine art muralist who specializes in interior work that adds elegance and meaning to commercial and residential spaces. With her expertise in large-scale interior murals, Laura turns spaces into visual experiences. She began painting during her years as a Critical Care Paramedic in Connecticut as a decompression practice. The hand steadiness needed with the lessened life-or-death outcome ignited a creative fire that continued for years. A self-taught and continually progressing visual artist, Laura started entering shows and galleries with watercolor paintings, mostly shorelines and birds with an evolution of nature pieces. What was once a small cathartic hobby expanded to acrylics, oils, and eventually large-scale murals. With a move to KC only a few years ago, Laura left the medical field to start a mural business, Harpy Art Studio. Continuing her original works in studio, she expresses with illustrative pieces demonstrating realistic representation of familiar subjects in familiar places, with questions of the representation itself!

The Beatrix Project is a solo expedition into the fears and the truths that we hide and run from. Beatrix is a singer/songwriter/guitarist/ violinist/writer and all around great gal. She is currently playing violin for our besties in Ramona Clay and she busks for the Ren Faire in the summer!