Kathy Lawrence grew up and studied art in New York City, in an
environment ideal for a budding artist. Her earliest childhood
memories are of happily painting alongside her mother in her studio,
using her mom's best sable brushes and paints. Today, like her famous
mother, Lawrence is well known to collectors for her paper doll books.
She often modeled for her mother, artist Queen Holden, whose paper
doll books from the 1930s to the 1960s are highly collectible and are
still being reproduced today.
Recalls Lawrence, "I was blessed with a wonderfully nurturing
childhood, and I'm sure that has had a role in making children such a
favorite subject of mine. Painting the things that delight me a
child's little hands in prayer, the play of light on a fringed
coverlet, the precious feeling of a baby in one's arms makes artwork
ever fascinating and challenging. I love to include the timeless old
toys that are a child's patient and loving companions, and to place
them in surroundings that feel familiar, comfortable and safe, like
the childhood I remember."
Lawrence, her husband and daughter live
in Texas and share a passion for old historic houses. Together, they
are restoring a turn-of-the-century Queen Anne Victorian home.
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