Portfolio.
Lauren O’Sullivan’s practice is rooted in earth pigments, clay, terracotta, basalt, plant dyes, and natural resins—materials that carry their own histories of erosion, resilience, and renewal. Through experimental processes of grinding, layering, and blending, she allows the rawness of these elements to guide the work, revealing organic forms that echo both the body and the land.
Her art explores the integration of our wild nature and the necessity of meeting it fully on the healing journey. Each piece is a mirror, reflecting cycles of time, memory in the body, and the shadows we must encounter to move toward wholeness.
These works are at once fragile and elemental, shaped by chance and intention, process and imperfection. In their surfaces, cracks, and layers, deeper emotions emerge—reminders of our interconnection with nature, our ancestral roots, and the transformative path between darkness and light.
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Containment. Blues, deep reds, plaster, and brown earth pigments converge in layered tension, evoking emotions frozen in time. The work reflects the weight of what is buried and held beneath the surface, still alive—contained yet pressing to be revealed.
Between Us. Created with terracotta clay, sand, and plaster, this piece explores the extension of connection—how forms reach, touch, and hold across boundaries. The raw earth materials mirror the human impulse to bridge distance and find belonging.
Kinetic I. Oils and terracotta clay converge in charged layers, capturing the pulse of energy and the magnetic pull between forces—the chemistry of movement, tension, and release.
Emergence. Subtle sheaths of light begin to illuminate a seemingly dim vista, awakening power within, not a performance or begging for applause just simply to be its nature. Layered sand, Oil, Pigment and plaster blended and ground offer the foundations for the light to emerge.
Dark infused. Carbon Black, Amber Pigments. The dark can be soft too, ethereal and deeply nourishing. Like the depths of winter and rest, when we yield to the shadow, there is ease. Its grip ceases, holding the space for the heavy, the light is infused with depth.
Primally Connected. Woven in to our fabric, the Earth, the ground, Safety is in our blood. We need home, foundations. In our base we find our roots, our passion and our union.
Wise Fire. In its youth the Fire rages, exhaustive, reacting, dynamic and destructive- it follows any path, any fuel. In its wisdom it learns to hold steady, find its ground, unhurried, sustaining, invitingly free. Oil & plaster on Canvas.
Kinetic II. Oils, Sand and terracotta clay converge in charged layers, capturing the pulse of energy and the magnetic pull between forces—the chemistry of movement, tension, and release.
