Laura Marie Anderson – Billings Arts Association

For April and May 2026, we are featuring Laura Marie Anderson of Billings Arts Association.

I’M LAURA

I believe that making art is about sharing what it is to be a human being. Whether I am painting a landscape, portrait, still life or making a sculpture, I would like to bring to you the same emotion that moved me to create it in the first place. I believe that if my art can invoke in you the same feeling that caused me to make it, then I have succeeded as an artist.

As a little girl she was surrounded by artists. Her mother, grandmother and babysitter, Loretta, were all painters. Laura grew up on the smell of turpentine. Whether that was good or bad is yet to be seen. As a child she loved drawing and whittling.

Her subjects were unsuspecting people. Mastering portrait painting by, “seeking to portray the soul”, she moved on to landscapes, as a client asked to be painted in front of a mountain scene.

Still lifes have always been a fun winter activity for Laura when winter temperatures drop below zero. Antique objects, that hold their own stories or everyday household objects that when embraced are truly beautiful. As a fun-loving soul, Laura also enjoys painting toys bringing us back to our childhoods.

One of the luckiest plein air artist alive, Laura currently lives in Montana near the: Beartooth Mountains, the Beartooth Highway, considered the most scenic Highway in America, the Pryor Mountains, home of their famous wild horses, East Rosebud Lake, which is at the end of the “Beaten Path, just a few hours from Paradise Valley, where the series Yellowstone was filmed, less than three hours from Yellowstone National Park and Chief Joseph Highway and five hours from Glacier National Park.

Welcome to Sandstone, Laura!

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