Artist Statement
Color is my first love and nature is my second. My goal is to create paintings that give the viewer’s eye many places to discover and explore. I thrive on creating busy but organized compositions, and I definitely want my paintings to tell a story.
In 2013 I collaborated with my cartoonist husband, Gary Dumm, on a series of environmental paintings that combine concerns about nature and social issues that surround and influence us and the future.
Paint must run through my veins, because I am happiest when I am in the studio. I get a bit cranky if I’m away from painting for too long.
Scream Of The Butterflies
Scream Of The Butterflies
Painting
Scream Of The Butterflies. 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas This painting deals with Pesticides and air pollution. Painting by Laura Dumm after a sketch and discussion by Gary Dumm
As we poison insects food supply, we also poison our own. Pesticides are welcomed for making plants insect resistant but the resulting adverse consequences to multiple spaces including our own is problematic. Creating pesticide-reisistant plants appears to be a good idea until it isn't.
Burning In Water, Drowning In Plastic
Burning In Water, Drowning In Plastic
Painting
Burning in Water, Drowning in Plastic 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas. Painting by Laura Dumm after a discussion and sketch by Gary Dumm.
We have created an enormous plastic floating island in the Pacific Ocean by the overuse and Pollution from fossil fuels, and the cavalier disposal of non-biodegradable plastic products (especially water bottles). It currently looms large as a threat to the biosphere.
To Be Or Not To Bee
To Be Or Not To Bee
Painting
To Be Or Not To Bee 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas Painting by Laura Dumm after discussion and a sketch by Gary Dumm. About the Loss Of Pollinators...
Decimation of the bee population and pollinators will come back to sting us with the reduction of our food supply. Humans are deft at destruction. Stronger societies obliterate weaker ones. And whole species may not survive due to lack of food, harsh climate, predation and the inability to adapt.
Reef, (Err), Madness
Reef, (Err), Madness
Painting
Reef, (Err), Madness 36" x 36" acrylic on canvas Painting by Laura Dumm after discussion and a sketch by Gary Dumm Dealing with the Loss of Habitat
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been home to an incredible diversity of marine life, but, like the proverbial "canary in a coal mine" it now presents a stark warning about global warming. The colorful corals are dying due to the rising temperature of the ocean there: leaving behind only bleached bones and the stillness of a watery graveyard.