Laura Wenmaekers

Biography

Laura Wenmaekers is a French and Portuguese painter born in 1996. Living in different European countries, therefore exposed to so much history and wonderful cultures, she was drawn to art from a young age. Laura has studied art in the UK and in Paris in different schools and assisted a realist portrait artist for a year before joining the FAA in 2017. Upon graduating in 2020, she was awarded the fourth-year prize as a graduate in residence and started teaching in the full time program. She is now a principal instructor in the Drawing & Painting Program at The Florence Academy of Art.