Meet our Artist
Candace Greer
Candace Greer Leger is a contemporary abstract painter. She draws her inspiration from the coast, water, nature and her travels. She works with a variety of mediums including high flow acrylics, oils, watercolors, gouache, charcoal and oil pastels. Candace begins her process with shapes and negative space and uses layering principles throughout her art. She uses her work as a healing modality and her work is very calm, soothing and peaceful. Candace currently resides in her hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana, with her husband, daughter and rescue pets.
David Harouni
Harouni is an internationally recognized artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Born in Iran, Harouni migrated to the U.S. during the 1978 Revolution. His journey through art began at the Art Students League of New York, where his love of figurative painting developed. After the Art Students League of New York Harouni continued his practice as a painter in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and finally New Orleans, where he has lived and worked now for twenty-five years as a singular and dominating figurative painter. His work has been shown in galleries across the United States and in private and corporate collections across the world.
Crystall Coroy
For Crystall, painting is more than just moving color around on the canvas. It is more than a visual representation of an object or a scene.
Crystall paints intuitively, responding in any given moment to her emotions as they surface, letting them guide her. Through her brush, she mixes emotions with color and layers of textured oils, blending together feelings and pigments. she consciously breathe in positive emotions and exhale these onto the canvas as time passes and escapes into a different world where time stops for her.
In this state, her paintings take shape and as the colors merge, she begins to sense that something is there on the canvas. What she aims to capture is more of a feeling than a physical object, so that each individual viewing the painting can interpret what others see from their own unique perspective. They may see something different than another would.
They see what they need to see in the painting. Something that is a gift to them, that will lift them up. They may even see something in a painting that Crystall hadn't even noticed, which makes her heart smile.
Leslie Brauns
For as long as Leslie can remember, Art has been a part of who she is. She began painting as a young girl. There was always a desire to create. Leslie dreamed of a Fine Arts degree when she attended college but was discouraged from pursuing Art as a career. She took every elective art class that was offered and painted clothing as a side job with a local Artist. Over the years her desire to create has taken many forms from cookie making, to floral design, to painting oils and acrylics. In 2017 Leslie began working with clay and creating pottery. Her hand built ceramics are intended to be beautiful yet functional. Each piece is therapy for her soul and this expression of art brings her joy. Leslie is truly honored to have the opportunity to share her love of pottery making as an artist exclusively featured at Studio Fourteen.
Kathryn Boudreaux
In the vibrant heart of Lafayette, Louisiana, contemporary artist, Kathryn Boudreaux weaves her passion for layers of color into captivating canvases.
Using oils, acrylics, and other mixed media, she captures the depth of color and contrast from abstract, landscapes and figurative art in contemporary form. Her work, primarily on wood canvasses, creates paintings with deep connections to the spirit of Louisiana through various degrees of texture.
Her art brings peace and serenity to its viewers. Kathryn, from Houma, Louisiana currently resides in Lafayette.
Roz LeCompte
If art allows you to see through the eyes of the artist, Rozalyn LeCompte’s eyes are kaleidoscopes. The world looks back at you in bright shades of pink and turquoise – there is no fear of color here – and in shapes both abstract and universally recognizable.
What may appear as an orderless mosaic turns out to be a stylized family of symbols moored in LeCompte’s personal mythology. The end game isn’t chaos or choose-your-own-adventure art; in fact, LeCompte’s work is bringing sharp focus to the world at-large, distilling human experience into symbols and stories that are sometimes ancient and always familiar.
The art of South Louisiana has its own vocabulary of moss-draped oaks, alligators, blue dogs, and stilted houses. Roz LeCompte adds confidently to this Southern lexicon with symbols no less familiar – handheld fans, teacups, candles, snakes, the swamp lotus. She is clearly inspired by her mysterious swampy homeland and the stories its nature and people carry, and her work deftly explores the Southerner’s infatuation with adornments and rituals.
LeCompte is self-taught, tapping her intuition and fostering a natural sense of play felt throughout her work. It’s easy to imagine the artist as a young girl painting teacups and flowers and snakes on her studio floor. But the femininity and fragility in her art impart serious whimsy, the kind of play that breaks you open and makes you free again. LeCompte’s lack of formal training makes room for bona fide naïveté; she is simply (and stunningly) seeing the world and eating it alive and synthesizing the experience into every medium she can get her hands on.
Brooke Hoogendoorn
As a creative and emotional child, the author's parents allowed their creativity to flow freely, leading to their self-taught artistic career. In high school, they were voted most talented among over 500 classmates and asked to help with designing t-shirts and school posters. The author began painting windows for businesses, murals, and signage while trying to find their niche in the art world. As a 23-year-old mother, they were introduced to decorative painting/faux finishing after their aunt saw their work on their 1950s home. This trend gained popularity in the 2000s, and through word-of-mouth advertising, the author was booked for months at a time. They visited beautiful homes in the Lafayette area, met fabulous clients, and made connections with talented designers.
This continued until 2013, when the author had her second child. She knew it was time for something different and constantly dabbling in new techniques. She experimented with abstract aspects on canvas while pregnant, and it felt right. This change came at the right time, as she had just become Mrs.Hoogendoorn in 2011. The author's new business cards and new look were a testament to their passion for art.