Every painting I make explores my deep emotional connection to the natural landscape. It all began in the overwhelm I felt in early motherhood, when I found sanctuary, peace, and hope out in wild open spaces. I’m looking for the tensions between order and chaos, drawing inspiration from the transitions between different layers found within the landscape to create hopeful artworks that invite the viewer to share in these experiences.
Hope is my anchor in a storm, an active emotion and choice made to believe for better and brighter things and move towards them with intention. Hope gives our lives meaning, it gives us strength, it connects us to those around us with increased empathy and compassion. Art that carries hope matters. It changes the way we live our lives, it lifts us up, helps us see beyond our circumstances and current experiences and believe for more. Hope is that arresting feeling when beauty stops you in your tracks. Beauty gives us hope.
Layering rich blues and greens, bleeding into soft pinks and peaches, I seek to capture and abstract the essence of spacious landscapes, seascapes and skies. In mapping out the layers and rhythms that create beauty in the midst of uncertainty, my aim is to capture the delicate balance holding up the world around us. Recreating the peace I’ve found enables me to share these deeply moving encounters with you my audience
I’m currently represented by The Biscuit Factory (Newcastle), Cambridge Contemporary, The Art Buyer (Hampton Court), IIF Gallery (London), and Glasshouse Contemporary (London). My artwork has featured widely in exhibitions and art fairs across the UK, including the Affordable Art Fair, The Other Art Fair and Manchester Art Fair. You can find my paintings in private collections across the world and I’m excited to be producing commissions for private clients and designers, while continually exploring the boundaries of my practice.
“In Laura's canvases, the place where two colours meet is pure magic. Take a close look at how she blends and mixes paint, showing an incredible amount of restraint and balance.
I can't get enough!”
Alissa Sexton, Curator
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Group Show, Solstice, The Old Lock Up Gallery
2025 Group Show, Bury Open 2025, Bury Art Museum
2025 Group show, Winter Show, Cambridge Contemporary
2025 Manchester Art Fair
2025 Group Show, Secret Coast Award, Tighnabruaich Gallery
2025 Group Show, A Small Space Collective, Macclesfield Silk Museum
2025 Group Show, For Someone, For Something, Katie Lindsay Gallery
2025 Group show, Blue, Cambridge Contemporary Art
2025 Group show, The Space Between, Tarpey Gallery
2025 The Other Art Fair, London
2025 The Affordable Art Fair, Adlib Gallery
2024 Manchester Art Fair
2024 Group show, The Sculpture Lounge
2024 The Heaton’s Arts Trail, Manchester
2024 Group show, Celebrating Colour, Tarpey Gallery
2024 Solo show, Finding Hope, The Biscuit Factory
2024 Group Show, A Small Space Collective
2024 The Other Art Fair, London
2024 Group show, Red, Tinker Gallery
2024 Duo show with Cambridge Contemporary
2023 Group Show, Manchester Made, Waterside Arts Centre
2023 Group show, The Winter Show, The Art Buyer
2023 Group show, The Winter Show, Contemporary Six
2023 Group Show with Twist Art, Oxford
2023 Manchester Art Fair
2023 Group show, The Sculpture Lounge
2023 Group Show, Mura Ma Art Gallery
2023 Group Show, A Small Space Collective, London
2023 Group show, Abstract, Cambridge Contemporary
2022 Group show, The Winter Exhibition, Contemporary Six
2022 Group show, Winter Show, Cambridge Contemporary
2022 Group show, Winter Exhibition, Inch Arts
2022 Manchester Art Fair
2022 Solo Show at The Lowry Hotel Gallery, Comme Ca Art
2022 Group show, Colour & Abstraction, The Art Buyer
2022 Group Show with The Gallery Next Door, Manchester
2022 Group show, The Summer Show, The Art Buyer
2022 Group show, In Manchester, Cotton-On Mcr
2022 Group show, Abstract, Surface Gallery
2022 Roy’s Art Fair, London
2022 Winter Group Show, Kingsgate Project Space with ArtCan
2021 Group show, The Winter Show, The Art Buyer
2021 Cotton On MCR Art All Dayer
2021 The Contemporary Art Fair with The Art Buyer
2021 Group show, Abstract 2, The Square Foot Show, online
2021 The Affordable Art Fair with The Art Buyer
2021 Group show, In Manchester, Saul Hay Gallery