Victoria Road, Cowes

Victoria Road, Cowes

The ramshackle but cosy workers’ cottages off Cowes Parade were the perfect places to stay during Cowes week. This one had a one-clawed lobster hanging in pride-of-place on the dining room wall. On the wall under the lobster there was a small framed statement saying...
Trees, Arching Houses

Trees, Arching Houses

The back garden at Mazenod Avenue, West Hampstead. This painting was featured in the Guardian U.K. newspaper. SIZE: 12.5” X 8.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Abbotts Place

Abbotts Place

Using an entire sheet of watercolour paper, this is the largest of Laura’s watercolour paintings. The view out of the window at West End Lane includes the neighbours’ gardens and the spire of St. Mary’s Church, Kilburn in the distance. The church was built in 1856...
August In Kilburn

August In Kilburn

The bedroom door of the flat at Mazenod Avenue opened out into the garden. Mazenod Avenue and West End Lane are actually situated in a no man’s land between West Hampstead, St. John’s Wood and Kilburn. We referred to the neighbourhood as Kilburn or West...
Chestnut Tree

Chestnut Tree

The Chestnut tree in the garden at West End Lane in November. Tradition has it that early construction workers would take rubble from a house and burn it against a tree in the back garden. Apparently the trees often caught fire. That was the explanation for this...
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