Many interior designers, product designers and textile designers rip, tear and shred magazine pages for inspiration. Looking at beautifully decorated rooms, artist Page Laughlin paints these masterpieces making them more magical than before. She describes her work as "creating an illusion" and revealing the process of production.
Her delicate work seems blurry at a glance but once your eye focuses, you will see she highlights certain aspects of the room, for example the clearly painted fabric showing every detail. This is ironic because often times a certain fabric serves as the foundation for a room's inspiration. The texture in her paintings offers her viewers this illusion to see beyond and provoke inspiring visuals. She explains that her current work focusing on high end design magazines, giving her the ability to paint the "fantasies of materialistic beauty".
What I enjoy most about Laughlin's work is the evolution of a 3d space into a 2d rendering that doesn't diminish the experience, as photography is often accused of.
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