LAUREN BATISTE ADAMS
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Oil + Oil Pastel

My oil paintings are shaped by attentive, embodied looking.  They begin with simple presence - watching light move across water, studying the rhythm of branches, noticing color in the periphery. The work is made quickly, guided by intuition, gesture, and the physicality of paint. Oil and oil pastel allow me to move between softness and structure - to hold atmosphere while also marking the decisiveness of the moment.  Each piece is an attempt to translate sensory experience into a distilled visual language - color, movement, breath.
"Composition 11- Early Morning", oil and oil pastel on canvas, 12x12", private collection
"Composition - Blue Weather", oil and oil pastel on canvas, 12x12"
"Composition 10 - Early Morning", oil and oil pastel on canvas, 12x12" private collection
"Composition 8- Summer Trees", oil and oil pastel on canvas, 12x12"

THE SOUND OF TREES

The Sound of Trees emerged during a period of deep looking - long walks, and quiet mornings with sustained attention to the rhythms of branches, wind, and shadow. These paintings were made quickly, but from a place of stillness. The marks are gestural and immediate, yet grounded in close observation - the split second flicker of light through leaves, the sway of a trunk, the breath-like pulse of a canopy shifting in air. 
What matters in this series is not botanical accuracy, but the felt experience of being among trees - the way presence sharpens, the way the familiar world becomes luminous for a moment. These works sit at the meeting point between landscape and sensation, offering a glimpse of quiet interior clarity.
"Composition 4, Autumn Trees II"   Lauren Batiste Adams, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20x28", private collection
Composition 1  Lauren Batiste Adams, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20x28", private collection
"Composition 3 - The Light Tones of Morning"   Lauren Batiste Adams, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20x28", private collection
"The Sound of Pines I"   Lauren Batiste Adams, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20x28", available
"Composition 6 - Foggy Morning"   Lauren Batiste Adams, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20x28", private collection
"The Sound of Pines II"   Lauren Batiste Adams, acrylic and pastel on canvas, 20x28", available

VEILS

The Veils began as an exploration of atmosphere - how color, transparency, and slow shifts in tone can create a sense of suspended time.  These oil and acrylic diptychs are built in layers, allowing each pour, each mark, each pass of color to settle before the next emerges. The process mirrors the internal quiet I seek: a softening, a clearing, a moment where perception becomes expansive.
​Rather than describing a particular place, the Veils hold the emotional afterimage of morning light, open space, or a shift in weather.  Their horizontal fields and luminous transitions invite the viewer into a slower, rhythm, one where the edges of sky, land, and air blur into a single contemplative field.  Though they differ materially from my oil works, the Veils share the same intention - an invitation into presence, spaciousness, and subtle perception.
"Evening Veil - Churning Horizon" oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, Private Collection
"Morning Veil - Sunrise" oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, Private Collection
"Summer Veil - Sunlight and Shadow" oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, Private Collection
"Winter Veil - First Ray" oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, Private Collection
"Winter Veil - Clouded Seaside" oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, Private Collection
"Morning Veil - Seaside" oil and acrylic on canvas, diptych, Private Collection

Work from 2011 - 2024

A small curation of large scale earlier work. Vibrant, ethereal and nature inspired.
Lauren Adams, Sunlight under the Mountain
Lauren Adams - Deep Water Ripple
Canto 12 - Spring Sun Zip - Lauren Adams
Lauren Adams - Apricity
Lauren Adams - Pink Sunrise
Rolling Clouds by Lauren Adams
Lauren Adams - Canto 
Rolling Wave
Lauren Adams - Autumnal Rotation


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  • Home
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