Artizen contacted Russian artist, Laura Coul, after seeing her imagery on RedBubble.com, a website overflowing with photographers and digital artists that never fail to inspire us. Laura’s artwork is striking in its combinations - child and adult, organic renewal and growth contrasted with mechanical deterioration. Overcoming our language barriers allowed us to learn something about her thoughts and processes:


“Almost all the children’s work [is] created to order, using Photoshop and tablet. But often, in these works, I show my thoughts and vision of some stories and fairy tales.”


Visiting a children’s art school when she was young opened the door for her to start putting to paper the visual fantasies that had been with her since early childhood. Early visions involved dolls and then her imagination matured to include more depth.


“Yes, my works are often dark... but that’s how I see it, because our life has two sides - light and dark. Before us is always light, but I want to show that there is also shadow.”


Inspiration comes from books, poetry and music and then the process of creating the scene begins. Laura frequently looks for a model and takes photos of both the potential characters and their props. She then montages all this together with a good


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