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Louis LaBrie Louis LaBrie(American, b. 1950) is an American Realist painter.

Louis LaBrie was born in Martinez, California and began his journey as an artist at the early age of eight, completing his first oil painting of the Yosemite Valley reflected into the Merced River which he rendered from a postcard. His great uncle Phillip Menard, an accomplished landscape painter, lived with his family on occasion and was an early mentor. LaBrie attended UC Santa Barbara from 1968-72, and studied with Paul Wonner, Larry Rivers, Irma Cavat, and Gary Brown. The pure beauty of nature has always been LaBrie’s inspiration, guiding his inherent ability to convey feeling through distinct textures and abstract patterns found in the natural world with its complex effects of light and shadow that project the mood of the subject in which he paints.

He has worked in many two dimensional mediums including; oils, etchings, lithographs, colored pencil and oil pastels, that range in size from large murals to miniature paintings. LaBrie free-hands each painting using an intricate technique that requires layers upon layers and hundreds of hours of dedication that are put into each work, allowing for the paintings to read as well from up close as from a distance while capturing every detail. This process is challenging but necessary to achieve a realistically clear image so the viewer becomes one with the painting and may experience that particular moment and place.

Publications - Editorial - American Art Collector Magazine - June Issue: 'Marine Art Summer at Sea' - Published Essay - Town and Country: Jessica Dunne and Louis LaBrie, By Meredith Tromble; published by Hearst Art Gallery at Saint Mary's College

External links Louis LaBrie Official website Cambridge Art Gallery official website