Lauren Ottley is an abstract, figurative and literary artist based in the Chicago area. Lauren's art evokes emotional responses and the connection to our own lives and the stories we tell ourselves. The notion that art is a vibrational messenger to those who need it most, including the artist herself, is something incorporated in every piece.

“Art doesn't always get chosen - often, the art chooses us.”

Her work is rearranging her life story from a literary sense to a visual one and incorporating many stories that other women have shared from professional hairdressing for 19 years. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Chicago. She has collectors across the country and abroad.

Although the main subjects in her work are women, elements and florals, as life changes her subjects may.

"Your story is your power" - creativity and freelance writing has been a labyrinth of self discovery I've been churning in since a young age, and at the center of this has grounded my core self. I'm not one that believes we have one purposeful endeavor, we'll have many, while we're here. My journey now is having the courage to share my words, personal experiences through drawing and painting and to pay that forward for the next person that may need to hear it."