Amelie Laurice is Filipina-American artist raised in Southern California, now working between Santa Monica, California and New Mexico. She works with painting and site specific installation blending elements of landscape, spirituality, and the natural world. Her background in the arts is shaped by years of informal study and immersion, a journey guided by experience and intuition rather than conventional academic confines.

Much of her work begins with materials collected from the land. She often responsibly forages natural pigments from rocks and earth or repurposes discarded objects, bringing these elements into the studio as both medium and subject. This process reflects her interest in authenticity, sustainability, and the ways material choices can carry the memory of a place.

Amelie’s work draws from the desert landscapes that have shaped her life, along with symbolic references tied to ecology and culture. She is interested in how desert plants, shifting skies, and resilient environments reflect human endurance and movement. Her paintings begin with an emotional pull toward the beauty of the land, opening into a process of discovering layered histories, cultural presence, and her own experience of diaspora across time and place.

Across different projects, her goal is to create work that invites reflection on our connections to the natural world, while highlighting the impact of human presence on the environments we inhabit.

Since 2021, Amelie has been a founder and curator at Dorado 806 Projects, an artist-run art space in Santa Monica, California. She has been recognized for Chief Curator’s Pick by SAATCHI ART and ARTSY, and was featured by the LA Times in the “27 Coolest Works Made-In-LA”.