Laura Zepeda is an artist living in western North Carolina. While she is proficient in a variety of painting and drawing media, her passion and focus over the last 15 years has been to create a body of work using Earth Paint, an experimental medium developed by the artist using crushed semi-precious gemstones and minerals as the sole source of stunning natural color and sparkle. These highly textured works of art are created using a variety of colorless acrylic polymers and beautifully colored stones such as lapis lazuli, malachite, turquoise, amethyst, garnet, mica, and other stones native to western North Carolina.