A native of Louisiana, Laure Williamson holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Louisiana State University, a Master of Art from Marshall University and a Master of Fine Art from Ohio University.  She has studied in workshops under Janet Fish, William Beckman, and Philip Pearlstein.

Williamson has taught over the last twelve years at West Virginia State University, Marshall University, and Shawnee State University. She is currently an adjunct at Louisiana State University where she teaches painting and drawing.  She  also conducts private classes and workshops in her studio.

Williamson has exhibited in over thirty juried exhibitions, winning several awards, and over thirty invitational, group, and solo exhibitions. She was commissioned for two murals for the Ohio School system and one for the city of Hurricane, WV.

Recently, she collaborated with two other artists in a  traveling exhibit that first stopped at Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana, then went on to the Ashland Area Art Gallery in Kentucky.  In September 2005, the three artists exhibited as “The Landscape Redefined” in Wheeling, West Virginia at Oglebay Institute Gallery.

She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts/ West Virginia Commission on the Arts Professional Development Grant.

She lives and works in Baton Rouge and the West Virginia Mountains.