"It just makes me smile," a client said while being interviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "It makes me happy every time I walk by it."

Laurel V. Fry paints with light and imagination. She captures the essence and soul of her subjects and sets them free in oil on canvas. Her original inspiration was both V. M. Fry, her mother, and Clair V. Fry, her grandfather. Her mother has a painting in the Museum in Columbus, Ohio. Clair was the Art Director for Brown and Bigelow in Minneapolis and counted Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell as friends and fellow painters. She apprenticed with her grandfather in Arizona in her twenties. Ms. Fry then followed in their footsteps as a painter.

Laurel works her portraits in oil and feels at ease rendering our fellow animal friends. She credits her mother and grandfather for the lessons learned in composition, value, and color but her style is her own.

Laurel and her grandfather were featured in a PBS television broadcast of "Georgia Digest" in 1989.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote a feature article about Ms. Fry's work in the December 19, 2005 edition.

Listed in Cambridge Who's Who 2007-2008 Edition.

Accepted member in Oil Painters of America 2008. The leading art organizaton dedicated to preserving and promoting excellence in representational art.

Laurel paints and resides in GA. with her twin children, husband, weimaraner dog Elmo, her prize winning show bunnies Mack and Mindy, and her rescue, Hobo.

Associations:
Member of Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, N.Y.
Member of Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, D.C.
Member of National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C.

Education:
American University, Washington, D.C.
Maryland College of Art, MD.

(below Emmanuel Lewis of "Webster" with Laurel V Fry purchasing one of two paintings of hers)