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Pricing starts at

Mural & Street Art

€1,000

Canvas Paintings

€500

Photography

€125

Member Since

November, 2021

Auracle in Ireland

Auracle

Laura

Ballintober,Ireland

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Workshops,Interviews,Live painting events,Online Workshop,Canvas commissions,Custom designs for wallpapers or decals

Event Product Family Portrait Real Estate Wedding Automotive Dating Portrait Engagement Fashion Maternity Media New born Sport Travel Urban Street Art Aircraft Graduation

Total years of experience:

Workshop

1 Years

Photography

50 Years

About
I photograph and paint, and strive to depict emotional states with symbolic color, orchestrated composition and Caravaggio-inspired filmic action. I worked for years at NBC as Network News Graphic Artist and Photographer, and as still photographer on several major films, including the hip-hop classic "Breakin'". I won the Grand Prize in the Nikon Photo Contest International, as well as a Third Prize and several Honorable Mentions, Best of Show at the State Museum of Pennsylvania's annual all-media show "Art of the State," and more than a dozen Best in Shows, First prizes and Purchase Prizes from Museums and art competitions. I founded and ran a street level NYC photography gallery for female photographers, with 40 feet of window on 5th Avenue at 47th Street, naming the gallery Fotoforum, after the original in Frankfurt, Germany. I curated "Make it Big," a reunion art show for my Harvard classmates, "Relief," at Broadway Gallery in NYC, and "Art of the Garden," a library exhibition of 100 artists. My photographs have recently been exhibited in solo shows at Aras An Chontae in Roscommon, Ballina Arts Centre and Museum of Country Life's Courtyard Gallery, both in County Mayo, Ireland and in group shows at the Irish Embassy Berlin and at Boyle Arts Festival in County Roscommon. I self-published a book, "Irish Isles" of my photos of Irish landscapes, as well as a catalogue for the Berlin Embassy show, "Moment," pairing my photos with haiku written by Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock. I have won awards in the 19th, 18th and 17th B&W Spider Awards. I was published online in May 2022 in Edge of Humanity Magazine with a series of street photography. I have won awards in the 17th, 16th and 15th International Color Awards, and published in the WINNERS BOOK and Winners Video Series. (Third Prize in Photojournalism with "Belfast Piece,") All About Photo Magazine included my work in the 22nd Edition and on their website with a full portfolio, as a winner in the 2021 "STREETS" competition. In 2021, my images of the Middle East were published in the winter edition of a Californian art magazine, "Catamaran," to resonate with a short story "Sunbirds," about Palestine. . I had the "In The Frame" page of "Totally Dublin" in May 2021, highlighting my website. Two of the 62 images chosen blind for "Street Photography Around the World" at the Los Angeles Center For Photography, by the editor of "Street Photography" magazine, were mine.

I paint my designs that have been created after working with the clients

Pick me for these projects! :-

painting murals, painting portrait commissions, painting pet portraits

I'll sit these ones out :-

Workshop
Mural At Maganah
Nathan Relaxing
Laura, Portrait, Professional Headshots, Photography - 13
Amazonia
Liz and Tony
Laura, Portrait, Individual Portraits, Photography - 12
Vieques mural wall
Ledid Fishnet
Laura, Travel, Destination, Photography - 11
Vieques Mural
The Stream Runs Wild
Laura, Aircraft, Photography - 10
Maganah Mural Full
Bedouin Children Dancing
Laura, Portrait, Artistic Portraits, Photography - 9
Maganah
On The Beach
Laura, Street Art, Graffiti and Murals, Photography - 8
Mediterranean Backyard
Call of the Wild
Act of Creation
Harvey Keitel
Feeding the Birds
Bryan Allens Bicycle Plane
Falling in Love
The Odd and Even Couple
Still Together
Miles Davis
Galapagos Turtles

Qualifications/Positions:

B.A. Visual and environmental Studies Harvard University Cambridge,   MA USA

Awards/Grants:

AWARDS LJ ZITO PAGE ONE

NIKON PHOTO CONTEST INTERNATIONAL
GRAND PRIZE for “Donkeys in the Dunes”,   86/97
FIRST PRIZES IN PHOTOGRAPHY AND PURCHASE PRIZES:
“Art of the State 2002”,   State Museum of Pennsylvania,   Harrisburg,  
PA for “Sandstorm in the Duna”
“Art Show at the Dog Show,  ” BEST OF SHOW,   BEST PHOTOGRAPH ’03
for “Sandstorm in the Duna”
FIRST PRIZES FOR BODY OF WORK:
Merchantville Art Fair,   NJ,   2004 for “Sinai Safari”
Rose Tree Park Art Show,   Media,   PA 2003 for “Sinai Safari”
Cape May 20th Annual Art Show,   NJ 2002 for “Sinai Safari”
FIRST MEDAL EVER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY IN THIS SHOW and
SECOND PRIZE in 2005 with for “Ireland: Re: Generations”
PURCHASE PRIZES:
State Museum of Pennsylvania,   Harrisburg,   PA,   “Art of the State 2002”
AKC Museum of the Dog,   St. Louis,   MS. “Art Show at the Dog Show” ‘03
James A. Michener Museum,   Doylestown,   PA,  
“Artsbridge 8th Annual National,  ” ‘02
Ocean City Arts Center,   NJ,   “Boardwalk Show,  ” ‘02
FIRST PRIZES IN PHOTOGRAPHY:
“Photography “08,  ” Philadelphia Sketch Club: JUROR’S AWARD
“Street Photography” Center for Fine Art Photography ’08
JUROR’S AWARD by Michelle Dunn Marsh,   head of Aperture
for “The Odd and Even Couple”
“Art Show at the Dog Show,   ‘06” also,   BEST GERMAN SHEPHERD,  
BEST DOG FROM THE SPORTING GROUP for “Great Catch”
“Art Show at the Dog Show ’03,  ” BEST HOUND,   BEST SIGHT
HOUND for “Sandstorm in the Duna”
“22nd Annual Juried Photo Exhibition,  ” O.C. Arts Center,   NJ
AWARDS LJ ZITO PAGE TWO

PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZES:
“Art of the Flower,  ” Philadelphia Sketch Club,   4/08 for “Spotlights”
“65th Annual Juried Exhibition,  ” Woodmere Art Museum ’05 for
“Tree Hugger” Juror: Gregory Amenoff
“63rd Annual Members’ Exhibition,  ” Woodmere Art Museum ’03
for “Cloud of Long Life”
“Cape May County Art League Annual Juried Exhibition” ’04
WILLIAM CADGE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD
“Westmoreland Art Nationals,  ” Latrobe,   PA ’03
COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD for “Storks in Ras Mohammed”
FIRST PRIZE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY IN ALL-MEDIA SHOWS:
"State of the Art 2002" State Museum of PA for "Sandstorm in the Duna"
“Air,  ” Plastic Club,   Philadelphia,   ’07 for “Tornado at Brighton Pier”
“Impressions 22,  ” American College,   Bryn Mawr,   Pa. ’03
for “Roman Sunset on the Jewish Quarter”
SPECIAL AWARDS:
“Annual Juried Exhibition,  ” Berkeley Art Center,   CA,   ’03,   SPECIAL
AWARD from Marion Parmenter,   SFMOMA,   for “Sunset in the Duna”
“63rd Annual Members’ Exhibition” Cheltenham Arts Ctr,   PA,   ’03
ESTHER KOPE MEMORIAL AWARD
“Color 03” Period Gallery,   Omaha,   Nebraska
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD for “The Tomb of Queen Medh”
SECOND PRIZES IN PHOTOGRAPHY:
“Cape May 20th Annual Art Show,  ” Cape May,   NJ
for BODY OF WORK 2005
“Texas Photography Society Members’ Only Show,  ” ‘04
“New Photography ’02,  ” Millard Sheets Gallery,   Pomona,   Ca.,  
curated by Getty Museum




AWARDS LJ ZITO PAGE THREE

THIRD PRIZES IN PHOTOGRAPHY:
International Color Awards 2022,   Photojournalism https://photoshow.colorawards.com/winners.php?x=p&cid=520
15th edition of the WINNERS BOOK,   6/2022,   Winners Video Series,   7/2022.
“Avalon Art Show” Avalon,   NJ,   for “Pressing Through Oppression,  ” ‘05
“Art Association of Harrisburg 75th Annual Juried Exhibition,  ” curated by
Yvette Lee of the Whitney Museum,   for “Cloud of Long Life” ‘03
“Annual All-Media Open Juried Exhibition,  ” Plastic Club,   Philadelphia,  
for “Fantastical Day” ’03
“Impressions 22,  ” American College,   Bryn Mawr,   PA,   “Fantastical Day” ’03
“International Salon of Creative Photography,  ” London,   judged by
Prince Andrew for “Shady Boxer” ‘92
“Nikon Photo Contest International,  ” for “Energy Junctions” ’82-’83

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"16th Annual International Color Awards" 2023 Nominee in Portrait
"B&W Spider Awards 2022" for "Odd and Even Couple"
“Members’ Medal Show” Plastic Club,   for “Watering the Tree of Life,  ” ‘04
“New Photography ’03,  ” Millard Sheets Gallery,   Pomona,   Ca.
(3 separate HM’s) ‘03
“Adam Styka Juried Art Exhibition,  ” Doylestown,   Pa.,  
for “Watering the Tree of Life,  ” ‘03
“Beautiful II,  ” Period Gallery,   Omaha,   Nebraska,   for “The Red Sea,  ” ‘02
“Nikon Photo Contest International,  ” ‘92-’93,   ’84-’85,   ’83-’84,   ’80-‘81
“Impact of Photos,  ” Society for Photographic Education,   ’92






AWARDS LJ ZITO PAGE FOUR

AWARDS for OIL PAINTING
THIRD PRIZE: “Water,   Water,   Everywhere,  ” Plastic Club,   for “Act of
Creation,  ” ‘05
HONORABLE MENTION: “Annual Juried Show,  ” O.C. Arts Center,   for
“Liberation,  ” ’01
IMAGES CHOSEN FOR GROUP SHOW INVITATIONS
“Photography 2007,  ” Philadelphia Sketch Club,   10/07
“Flights of Fancy,  ” Art in City Hall,   Philadelphia,   ‘06
“The Journey Within,  ” Morrison Gallery,   Penn State University,   ‘03
“Winners Circle Exhibition,  ” City Paper Photography Exhibit,  
Gallery Siano,   Philadelphia,   ’02

Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"By Hand" Aras An Chontae Roscommon 10/24-1/25
"Peace and Love" McNamara's,   Boyle Arts Festival July 2024
"Summer Blossoms,  '" The Bazaar,   Boyle Arts Festival,   July 2023
"By Hand” Ballina Arts Centre,   7/19-9/19
“By Hand” Courtyard Gallery Museum of Country Life,   12/17 – 3/18
“By Hand” Fontana Cafe Dublin 9/2016-10/2016
“Over Views” launch of Archeological Dig at Ballintober Schoolhouse 7/15
“Roving the Red Sea” Fontana Café Dublin 12/14-01/15
“Brooding and Blissful Halcyon Days” Father Flanagan Center,   Ballymoe,   County Galway 10/14-2/15
“The Lambent Lens” Comfy Café Roscommon Ireland 4/14
“Homage To Joyce” Let’s Go Local,   Roscommon 3/14
“8th Annual First Person Festival of Memoir and Documentary Art”,   Painted Bride Arts Center,   Philadelphia,   PA 11/09
1 of 4 Winners of two hour paid stage presentation
“Going Bedouin” Fair,   Brighton,   UK 1/09
“All That Jazz” Vintage Restaurant,   Kinsale,   Ireland 10-12/07
“Ireland: Re: Generations” Lazy Jack’s,   Kinsale,   Ireland 9-10/07
“Tarrabin” Ras Shattayn,   Nueba Tarrabin,   Sinai,   Egypt 4/07
“All That Jazz” Milkboy Café,   Ardmore,   PA 3/07
“Going Bedouin” St. Asaph’s Episcopal Church,   Bala-Cynwyd,   PA 12/06
“Ireland: Re:Generations” Philadelphia Sketch Club,   1/06
“Sinai-Erotica,  ” Scott Memorial Library,   Philadelphia 5-9/05
“In Nomads’ Land,  ” Photo West Gallery,   Philadelphia 3/05
“Save Faces,  ” Lancaster County Art Association,   Strasburg,   Pa. 9/04
“Beyond the Pale,  ” Allens Lane Art Center,   Philadelphia 10/03
“Song of Sinai,  ” Pii Gallery,   Philadelphia 4/03
“The Vagabond Prints,  ” Ocean City Arts Center,   O.C.,   New Jersey 10/02
“Sinai Landscapes,  ” Rustichella,   Sharm-el-Sheikh,   Sinai,   Egypt 2002-03
“Irish Writers,  ” CMCH Library,   N.J. 11/01 - 1/02
“Kerry Scenes,  ” Listowel Cultural Center,   Listowel,   Ireland 9/2000 -7/01
“Irish Scenes,  ” Farranfore Airport,   County Kerry,   Ireland 1995 – 1999
“Sinai Bedouin,  ” Borders,   Stony Brook,   Long Island,   N.Y. 6/97
“Sinai Safari,  ” Schlesinger Library of Women's Archives,   Harvard University,   6/96
“Bedouin Ballad,  ” Stationmaster’s House Gallery,   Kiltimagh,   Cty Mayo,   Ireland,   9/94
"Sinai Bedouin" Clifden Art Fair,   Clifden,   Galway 92
Casa Pardo,   Buenos Aires,   Argentina 86
Overseas Press Club,   New York City 83
Bet Sokolov,   Tel Aviv,   Israel 82
South Houston Gallery,   Prince Street,   Soho,   New York City 78

Worked with the following major brands:

Salen Lindblad Travel,   Microsoft,   Avalon Travel Publishing,   David Nice Woodworking,   Horace Mann Educational Corporation Annual Report,   Le Fanion French Furniture,   Diving World,   Brian Moore International Tours,   Delphi Fishery,   Ireland,   Destination Red Sea,   Olson Travelworld,   Ashford and Dromoland Castles,   Rose of Tralee Festival Guide,   Ireland,   Easter Seals Calendar,   IDC Calendar,   Facts About Ireland CDRom for Irish Department of Foreign Affairs,   Desert Ashram Prayer and Meditation Calendar

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