L aurie Allickson was born in Minnesota, USA where she first took up oil painting in her early teens.

She eventually moved to Alaska where in the early 1980s she studied and refined her painting skills under the tutelage of several artists. One of them was famous artist, author and television personality, Bob Ross (“The Joy of Painting”) from whom she gained her love of expressing herself through landscape artistry.

After nineteen years in Alaska, Laurie moved to the Northwest Territories in Canada and eventually settled in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Laurie feels that her landscapes help explain the great white north so that Cheechakos, some in far away places, can also enjoy the expansive wilderness through her art.

A prolific landscape photographer, Laurie takes about two-dozen shots daily. She says, “Not only has photography been greatly altered in the digital world, but it has also changed my way of oil painting. Whereas I used to paint landscapes from memory, I now paint scenes from original photos. This allows me to include a high degree of accuracy while still enabling me to add expression to a scene, which only a painting can generate.

Laurie lives and works in a house and studio on a mountainside overlooking the city of Whitehorse. Here she also enjoys her hobby, - gardening. As well as landscapes, she photographs and paints the flowers she has grown.

Here on her website you can see Laurie working in her studio and view her latest paintings in the gallery along with thousands of her photographs. She does custom work and will produce an oil painting from any of her photos. A copy of the original photo along with its description is included with each of Laurie’s paintings.