Laura moved from Kent to the North West to undertake her BA in Embroidery at the Manchester School of Art (MMU) in 2001 and remained there. She rediscovered her creativity as she experienced motherhood for the first time, when painting became a way to process the challenges the changing seasons of her life brought.

Using acrylic paint primarily on wood panels, her paintings explore the deep emotional connection she feels to the natural landscape, and her experience of finding sanctuary and an internal peace there during stormy seasons of life. Laura is looking for the tensions between order and chaos, drawing inspiration from the transitions between different layers found within the landscape to create works that invite the viewer to share in her experiences.

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Creating these atmospheric and peaceful paintings Laura layers rich blues and greens, bleeding into soft pinks, seeking 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, her aim is to capture the delicate balance holding up the world around us. Often Laura’s paintings have a white veil over them in some way, she explains ‘the white veil layer is a reference to the horizon, and how when I’m up in high places and can see far, the horizon line is something that always settles my heart and makes me feel peaceful. It feels like a marker of what I experience being in those big open places, peaceful in myself’.

 Accompanying every painting, usually written on the back of the board or canvas, is a conversation she has had with one of her 2 boys which influences the title of the painting and is her way of remembering and recording significant moments with them.

Laura’s work has featured widely in exhibitions across the UK and at several prominent art fairs in London and is held in private collections across the world. She continues to produce commissions for private clients and designers and to create new self-initiated pieces to explore the boundaries of her practice.