Artist Statement

Monique Lazard is a Miami-based contemporary artist known for her vibrant landscape and still life paintings. With energetic impressionist brushstrokes, she captures the fleeting effects of light and the emotional resonance of color. Her practice focuses on translating the natural beauty of her surroundings—whether a lush botanical garden, a luminous shoreline, or a quiet interior—into expressive compositions that evoke presence and serenity. As a landscape artist and still life painter, her process is intuitive and responsive, favoring spontaneity over precision. Each painting reflects a sense of “aliveness,” where color and movement come together to suggest both place and feeling. Based in Wynwood at the Bakehouse Art Complex, Lazard continues to build a body of work that celebrates the rhythm of nature and the visual poetry of everyday scenes.

Personal Background

Monique Lazard discovered her passion for painting at the age of ten when her uncle, Ray Bertrand—a WPA muralist and San Francisco Art Institute instructor—gifted her a set of watercolors. She began her formal training at the Academy of Art in San Francisco, completed her BA at California College of the Arts, and pursued graduate studies at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Her early career unfolded in the fashion and editorial worlds, from illustrating for Liberty House in Oakland to directing design for publications like the Nob Hill Gazette and Fairchild Publications in New York City. She also taught fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design, further blending her design sensibility with fine art.

In 1992, seeking a slower rhythm, she relocated to Telluride, Colorado, where she reconnected with painting through watercolor excursions into the Rocky Mountains. There, she began producing miniature landscapes and teaching figure painting at the Ah Haa School for the Arts.

Now based in Miami, Monique works from her studio at the Bakehouse Art Complex, continuing to explore light, color, and emotion through her evolving body of work.

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Contact the artist:
monique.lazard1@gmail.com

{305) 349-3274