Biography

With over 25 years as a practising artist Laurel Foenander is a contemporary realist painter, working in oils. Many of her paintings are held in collections Australia – wide and over seas, particularly in the area
of Australian birds. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions She has won over 100 art show awards including :
The Vitalis Award at Nowa Nowa Nudes. Best in Show Awards at : Art Gippsland 2012/2016, Mirboo Nth. Art Show 2015/2018 Walhalla Art Show 2014/2015 Tanjil Valley Art Show 2016/17/18
Finalist selections in National Awards : The Norvill Landscape Prize 2012 Destination Daintree 2012 Arc Yinnar Drawing Prize 2012/14/16. In 2019 with a renewed focus on entering Art Prizes, her work “Survivor”

has been selected as a finalist in the upcoming Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize.
She is represented by Town and Country Gallery, Yarragon, South Yarra Art House Melb.. Hawthorn Studio Gallery Melb., and Mingara Gallery Cowes.