Amelia Street

Buildings, Canadian

A house in Amelia Street in Toronto’s Cabbagetown. The original photograph that this painting was based on was taken with Laura’s mother’s camera whose lens happily warped every subject and did wonderfully strange things with colours. SIZE: 18 X 11″ MEDIUM:...

Number 52

Buildings

52 Queensgate Terrace was part of a Georgian Terrace in Kensington where Laura lived when she first moved to England. The other residents of the flat were classical musicians. They lived on an upper floor of the Georgian town house at 54 Queensgate Terrace. Laura...

Broken Glass

Inside/out, Interiors, Janneau Armagnac, Landscape, Still Life

While en route to Ishgl, Austria, from London in 1987, the artist was deported from France because at the time Canadians required a visa. While returning to Dover in the ferry from Calais Laura bought a bottle of Janneau Armagnac as consolation for the inconvenience...

St. John’s Wood, Kitchen

Inside/out, Interiors

The view of Allitson Road through the old glass pane of the kitchen window at the flat above the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. The white tank on the right side of the painting is an electric water heater. SIZE: 16″ X 11″ MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL...

Sarah

Interiors, Portraits

Sarah was a neighbour at West End Lane. She worked as a designer. In her spare time she was an avid jive dancer and lifter of weights. The fragment of the oil painting at the top of this portrait is “Chrysanthemums”. SIZE: 32″ X 32″ MEDIUM: OIL...