About the Artist

I am coating the back of MDF cutouts with liquid latex. This is one of the many steps in working with epoxy resin. Liquid latex greatly helps with the clean-up process after the epoxy resin cures.

 
 

My name is Lalla Brook Noland, I was born in Denham Springs, LA and moved to Baton Rouge, LA in 6th grade. My first experience as an artist was around that time period when my mom enrolled me in private art lessons. I first learned to use acrylics under the guidance of an artist, who was a friend of the family, and the following year I studied charcoal and pastels at Louisiana MUD Painting.

As an adult, I have learned new techniques and gained confidence by watching YouTube videos. My mother deserves credit for always encouraging my talents and showing me that art can be created out of anything, which has led to my open-minded approach in non-traditional art.

Although I grew up learning the arts, as many people do, I had to leave behind my passions to pursue financial stability. Upon being discharged from the USAF in 2000, I started on a new career path in the insurance industry. I still maintain my full-time job and create as much as I can in my spare time. My life mantra has become:

“I work so I can afford to do what I love”.

When the “acrylic pouring” craze blew up on social media platforms in 2018, I became enamored with watching fluid art videos. I, never being afraid of a challenge, decided to give fluid art a try. That’s when a sleeping giant emerged from within my soul and I started creating my own fluid acrylic paintings. I ventured on to trying various other mediums with a particular love for epoxy art resin due to its versatility and often sparkly, fun pigments.

"Fluid art” is an innovative way to use epoxy resin, fluid acrylic paints and alcohol inks to create art. My creative process is never limited to any particular medium so you may find all three fluid mediums combined in one piece. The raw and organic results, along with the scientific process behind the fluid art form, continue to challenge and fascinate me on a daily basis.

In addition to my abstract paintings on traditional canvases, I enjoy using shapes cut from MDF and wood, and my functional art is created by using epoxy resin in silicone molds. I only have a limited amount of work time after mixing up epoxy resin, so if I have left-overs or over-flow from a painting, I keep various silicone molds handy to use the extra resin before it hardens, avoiding as much waste as possible. I also use what I have created in molds, such as crystals, as embellishments in other art projects.

Fluid art has been a lesson for me in learning to “go with the flow”.

I hope you enjoy my style and never be afraid to add a little splash of color to your life!!