Artist at work in the studio

The artist

Art without rules.

Resin pours, dot work, mosaics, mixed media — whatever the day calls for.

How it started

I didn't set out to be an artist. I set out to stay sane. Somewhere between retirement and a pile of supplies I wasn't sure what to do with, I started making things — and I couldn't stop.

Some days that means dotting a canvas for hours. Some days it means dotting a frog. I work in resin, in tile, in broken plates, in whatever material is interesting me that week. I'm building toward furniture — resin tables, mosaic surfaces — but honestly, I follow the work wherever it wants to go.

None of it fits neatly into a category, and I've stopped trying to make it. If it's made by hand and it makes me feel something, it belongs here.

Uba LaRue

The process

Resin is my anchor right now — the way color moves through it, the way it captures light, the way no two pours are ever the same. But I'm always pulling in other materials: tile, glass, found objects, paint, texture.

Mosaics are next. I've been collecting broken plates and tiles for a while now, and there's something about taking something broken and making it into something whole that feels exactly right.

"I make what I feel like making. That's the whole plan."

— Uba LaRue

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