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Lauren Voiers
Nationality	American
Movement	Surreal-Cubism & Impressionism

Lauren Voiers (born January 7, 1991) is an American Surreal-Cubism & Impressionism painter.

Biography

Lauren was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended St. Raphael’s Catholic School, then attended Westlake High School. Early in life Lauren showed an intense and highly persistent acumen for drawing with vivid colors on any surface and using any medium she could. A self-taught artist, she began painting at the age of 13. By the 7th grade, her art teacher had identified Lauren as performing at a college level. During high school she won many state and national art awards, leading to a gold key for an abstract.

Without any professional instruction, Lauren developed two parallel artistic styles. She blended Surrealism with Cubism in her abstract renderings while at the same time, producing American traditional landscapes in oil.

In 2009, Lauren Voiers was commissioned by the Global Peace Initiative to create a peace sculptural monument based on one of her original paintings as a gift of peace to the people of Europe, and dedicated to the memory of singer, songwriter John Lennon. The eighteen foot Peace and Harmony sculpture was unveiled by Julian Lennon on October 9, 2010 and celebrated what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. The monument incorporates a white feather within its design after a request from 47-year-old Julian, who sees it as a symbol of both his dad's spirit and of peace. The monument is placed in Chavasse Park, Liverpool, England, the home of John Lennon and the Beatles, where it will act as an alternative to Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park, New York.

External links

• Lauren Voiers Website
• The Global Peace Initiative