205 Yonge Street

Buildings, Canadian

Designed by EJ Lennox and built in 1905, it was originally a Bank of Toronto building and for a time was the home of the Toronto Historical Board. Next to it at 197 Yonge Street is another historic building. The Colonial Tavern stood between them before it was...

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...