About Lauretta

Interview  with Judy Nemer Sklar, professional artist currently residing in Palm Desert, CA.  Judy is writing a book about  interviews with mid-life successful artists from all genres:   https://artistnarratives.com/interview-with-lauretta-lowell/ 

An award winning mixed media/assemblage artist from La Quinta, CA, Lauretta Lowell has been selling  her unusual creations in Fine Art Festivals and Art Galleries since 2009.  Her whimsical assemblages are in many art collections all around the world.  Articles on her work, and her journey to becoming an artist, have been published in major magazines.

Lauretta is originally from Santa Barbara, CA but moved to California's desert  in 2002.  You can find her working hard creating and teaching in her art studio in La Quinta, CA.

"My art isn't planned in advance; the objects I work with seem to tell me what to create as I touch them and see them.  The story just seems to write itself while I pick up this and that, combining vintage and antique findings/treasures and they begin to talk to me, sparking some sort of electrical current through my veins.  Using found or discarded objects; I hope to offer you an interesting and fulfilling moment that captures your curiosity and makes you smile."

After sustaining a serious head injury in a small plane crash in the late 1980s, a brain tumor developed in 2002 causing Lauretta to have several small strokes.  It took five challenging years to recover from this damage and regain  her independence again.  Although Lauretta lost her aptitude to continue the career she had once known as a corporate marketing executive, she found herself increasingly drawn to art, both as a way of regaining her health and as a means of expressing herself.  She feels blessed to have recovered with such a gift and