It was towards college when Lauren Elyse decided she’d take the leap of faith required of aspiring artists. “I had an inkling that painting was going to be something I wanted to dedicate all my energy towards around seventeen when I started college,” she recalled in an interview with CreativeFluff Magazine.
“I made the decision to major in business over art right away because I knew if I wanted it to work, I needed to know how business worked.”
She had since been hard at work. Based in San Diego, California, what began as a hobby that included painting surfboards and skateboards, went on to become a full-time job. Soon, surfboards turned into contracts with local businesses for murals which then turned into private commissions. “Everything really just fell together from there,” she says.
Experimenting with different methods and techniques, it’s hard to pinpoint her exact style (“Can’t make up my mind,” reads her cryptic Instagram bio). Elyse herself describes her work as “fragments that swirled themselves together, influenced by life experiences, other artist’s work I admire, my own observations and emotions, each one serving a purpose for something I need to get out and say.”
We’re willing to take her word for it.
