Windsor Marie

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Windsor Marie was born in a living room on Willy Street, Madison WI. It is the collaborative effort of guitarist Rockwell Windsor Rice, singer Annabel Lee, and string player Steven Ethington. Windsor Marie\'s sound is a carefully constructed mixture of smooth, sparkling vocals pushed along by a current of rhythmic intensity and adorned with soaring, symphonic lines of beauty.

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