Lori Phillips, known by her artistic name LP Arts, is a contemporary fluid artist whose vibrant works reflect a lifelong fascination with color, sparkle, and movement. Her nickname, LP, recalls the era of long-playing records, a time when music, rhythm, and creativity formed the backdrop of her youth. Just as those records spin endlessly, her art, too, flows in spirals, waves, and blooms of ever-changing energy.
Raised by a mother she fondly remembers as a sparkle girl, Lori was introduced early to the beauty of glittering things, colorful textures, and the wonders of nature. Following along as a child, she absorbed the vivid beauty of flowers, sunsets, and shifting light. These impressions became her palette: the natural world’s brilliance combined with her mother’s love for sparkle. From this foundation, her lifelong love of beautiful color was born.
Discovering Fluid Art
For Lori, the path to becoming an artist was not immediate but evolved over time. A retired senior, she found herself turning deeply toward creative exploration during the COVID era, when isolation forced many to reimagine their lives. With new time and focus, Lori embraced the expressive, unpredictable world of fluid art.
What began as curiosity quickly grew into passion. She immersed herself in techniques that demand patience, control, and openness to chance. The unpredictability of how paints and resins flow, merge, and transform on canvas captured her imagination. The more she experimented, the more she realized she had discovered not only an art form but a new way of expressing the joy and beauty she had carried within her all her life.
Everything Lori creates is filled with beautiful color, and she is proud to have found this expression after a long journey of life experience. Painting became both a passion and a source of pride, a way of channeling her resilience and creativity into something luminous.
LP Arts: A Voice and Vision
Adopting the name LP Arts, Lori has embraced her identity as both a creator and an advocate for fluid art. She views herself not only as a painter but also as someone spreading awareness about this unique medium. Fluid art is not simply pouring paint onto a surface; it requires balance, technical skill, and intuition. Every piece is an experiment and a collaboration between the artist, the materials, and the forces of gravity and flow.
Her work also incorporates resin, which enhances the vibrancy of her colors and gives her paintings a luminous, glass-like surface. This glossy finish transforms her artworks into visual experiences designed to draw the viewer in and hold their gaze.
Spiral Bloom: A Painting with Personality
Among her creations, Lori highlights one painting in particular: Spiral Bloom. This round gallery-wrapped canvas, finished with a resin top coat, is both technically demanding and visually stunning.
Spiral Bloom was one of the hardest techniques in the genre, and Lori brought it to life with great care. The work seems alive, a lover of light that glows and transforms in daylight. In the dark, it recedes, requiring proper lighting to reveal its brilliance. As one lives with the painting, it changes and morphs, its colors shifting and traveling across the surface. Spiral Bloom is more than an artwork; it is a presence, one with its own temperament and requirements, a fussy but dazzling girl.
The painting exemplifies Lori’s artistry: bold, colorful, and deeply personal. After living with it, she now offers it for sale, confident that collectors will adore it as much as she does.
The Heart of Her Work
What makes Lori’s work stand out is the joy and authenticity she brings to her practice. She paints not only with color but with memory, experience, and love. Each piece is infused with her appreciation of beauty, her resilience through life’s challenges, and her sense of wonder.
As a self-described eye candy girl, she delights in creating art that dazzles and uplifts. Yet beneath the sparkle lies substance, the patience of trial and error, the courage to master difficult techniques, and the humility of letting the medium speak for itself.
A Message for Viewers and Collectors
For Lori, every painting is an invitation. She encourages viewers to look closely, to let the colors shift and surprise them, and to experience the way light transforms her resin-coated works. Owning one of her paintings means living with a piece that evolves daily, rewarding attention with ever-new details.
She also shares her excitement about offering her art for others to enjoy. After spending time with works like Spiral Bloom, she feels ready to pass them on, confident that collectors will love them as much as she does.
Conclusion: Walking with the Sun
Lori Phillips’s journey as LP Arts is a story of late-blooming creativity, fueled by a lifetime of color, memory, and passion. From her mother’s influence to her rediscovery of art in retirement, she has found a powerful way to express joy through fluid art and resin. Her works shimmer with energy, changing with light and time, much like life itself.
As Lori continues to paint, explore, and share, her mission remains simple but profound: to celebrate beauty, spread awareness of fluid art, and create vibrant pieces that brighten the spaces and lives they enter.
