Laurel Terlesky has been practicing as a professional visual artist for more than ten years after completing her BFA degree, majoring in visual art (painting) from the University of Victoria. She creates canvases that are largely abstract in style built around an awareness of the human form and kinetic movement. Themes that have developed a language in her work revolve around electricity & power, sustainable energy practises, spirituality, and the human body as it relates to spatial environment. Her paintings also challenge our awareness of space by illustrating optical, illusionary space or by flattening space or by creating depth with solid colour placement. Her works often have the additional elements added to make the painting become a 3 dimensional object giving it a presence on to its own. She has exhibited her work in Whistler, Squamish, Victoria, Vancouver, Montreal and San Francisco.

Laurel recently spent a month at an international artist residency in Barcelona, Spain working on future projects.