The gazebo with its pink roses belonged to the grand old house, Mornington, which was situated at the bottom of Mornington Road in Cowes. In inclement weather it afforded shelter for watching the races from the nearby Royal Yacht Squadron. SIZE: 15.75” X 11.5” MEDIUM:...
The funky huddle of vine clad, rusted metal structures around the old coach house at Queen Street and Coxwell Avenue was one of the arcane delights of Leslieville. Recherché and mildly feral, it was bound to be demolished by people who neither recognized or valued its...
The gulf stream creates the temperate climate on the south coast of Cornwall allowing for lush vegetation, including palm trees. SIZE: 12.75” X 8.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
An appropriately watery watercolour depicts the scene from the window of a B&B in Betswy-Coed on a rainy day in North Wales, 1981. SIZE: 10” X 14” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
This was the scene from the window at the end of the hallway on one of the floors of the hotel in Andermatt, a town in the Userne Valley in Switzerland. The Mexican one-man-band who played nights in the bar stayed in the room at the end of the hall by the window. Many...
The sun illuminated the top of a mountain near Ischgl as it simultaneously lit up a white wedge of wall on the near side of town. SIZE: 10.5”X13.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Marcia’s red baby shoes, an apple jug containing coleus leaves rooting in water and an old beloved table lamp. SIZE: 13 .75” X 10” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
It was a photograph in a magazine. The white wicker, the cream pitcher full of flowers, the dark portrait, the ancient typewriter and the overgrown vegetation outside the window made the scene memorable. SIZE: 7.5” X 5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $75 DIGITAL...
Small painting of two Chinese bowls. SIZE: 5.5” X 9” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $75 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
White china tea things, oranges, a banana and apples on a wooden cutting board with an ornately cast silver spoon. Reminiscent of Leonard Cohen’s Suzanne, who feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China. SIZE: 12:5” X 18.5” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL...
The white porcelaine statue of Guan Yin, Goddess of Mercy, stands in front of a fan with a plant on a striped cloth. Outside the window it’s winter. SIZE: 14” X 10” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The wine - was it port? - was long gone before the bottle held the rose that died there. Lined up with blue mug and sugar bowl to the left and brown bowl containing an apple and an orange on the right. Painted in apartments in the Hampton Mansions, Winchester Street,...
Red grapes lie in a silver gravy boat beside a gilded crystal wine goblet containing a white and a red carnation, with a white carnation lying on its own. SIZE: 8.5” X 8.5” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
In the dim light of a glass lamp three apples, two pears and a pair of ceramic candlesticks sit on a printed silk scarf. SIZE: 18” X 14” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The long vines of the houseplant, the telephone wires outside the window and the vertical pattern of the wallpaper below the table define the grid motif in this composition. The plant’s leaves echo the shape of the bird’s beak and tail. SIZE: 17.5” X 12.5” MEDIUM:...
A barefoot doll wearing a Chilba hat and silk jacket from Singapore. The pillow cover is decorated with an Indian hand block print. The doll and the pillow sit on an oak chair with leather upholstery. SIZE: 16” X 18” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE...
An explosion of colourful flowers cribbed from the covers of seed packets stands in a blaze of whiteness beside a hose reel cart. SIZE: 13.25” X 21” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
While the cellist takes a break from practising, her instrument leans on a light blue, chrome legged dinette chair. The chair is draped with a forest green coat and matching pillow. The bow balances there. The studio is in the garret of the house in Sherbourne Street....
A plant, a watering can, an oval mirror on the floor reflecting the hallway and the top of the stairs, the easel, a knee and the door at the end of the hallway. In the foreground is the Wilton carpet that was a second hand find on Parliament Street. SIZE: 17.5” X...
A young man plays the guitar in front of a radiator. SIZE: 20" X 21” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE: AVAILABLE
A man stands with two of his grandsons in front of some trees. The flaw in the photograph looks like science fiction. SIZE: 18' X 11” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Canadian photographer Reva Brooks, in the guest house on the grounds of her home in San Miguel De Allende where she lived with her husband, artist, Leonard Brooks. SIZE: 30" X 29" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $330 ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE:...
A wooden Humpty Dumpty with hinged legs sits in the window of an antique shop in Niagara Falls, Ontario. SIZE: 20” X12.75" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Michael’s very colourful, very macho kitchen in the basement flat where he lived, opposite the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes, Isle Of Wight. SIZE: 9.5” X 6.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The gigantic beaded cranberry glass lamp is surrounded by smaller lamps, clocks and portraits in oval frames, all dominated by the sensual form of the Impala as it bursts out of the wall. SIZE: 17.75" X 13" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE...
The fireplace in the dining room with its marble mantelpiece and the cast iron hearth was one of the nicest features of the flat in West End Lane. The papier-maché London bus on top of the mantel had come off the back of the motorbike when rounding a curve in Park...
It’s as if a stately ghost is wafting into the room through the window, sweeping the blue cotton curtain to one side. The telephone faces the chair expectantly. Watercolours of Unbrian scenes float over a pink wall. SIZE: 16” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD...
The chairs, their chintz covers, the table, the lamp and the curtains all seem to be caught in transit, dancing as if no one is looking. SIZE: 16” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The bedroom in the garret overlooking the High Street had an early 1950s feel for 1982. The plastic parrot that was a mascot from Cambridge, the wine bottle lamp, the carriage clock, the Turkish table runner, the package of Camels unfiltered and all the other articles...
During the winter of the Polar Vortex of 2015, Laura shivered in the draughty coach house behind Queen Street to paint this amazing room whose existence was known by very few people. All manner of arcane objects were artfully arranged, from taxidermy owl, cat and...
Ed Michael Roth took a photograph of the band at the CD release of 57 Minutes in November, 2013. After extensively manipulating the photograph in Photoshop Laura used the altered image as the basis for this painting. Sitting at the red piano in the foreground is Mark...
Mystery men merging with shopfronts and glass doors numbered 306 twice, of Mystery Street. Somewhere, sometime in Toronto a very long time ago. SIZE: 18' X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A bedroom at the back of the flat in the grand, dilapidated four storey house in Queensgate Terrace afforded this view of Georgian coach houses. SIZE: 8.5" X 11" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
A bedroom at the back of the flat in Queensgate Terrace afforded this funky view. The rag and bone man could occasionally be seen from the bedroom window with his horse and cart in the laneway, calling for customers to come out. SIZE: 11.5" X 8.50" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR...
View of the buildings across Allitson Road from our flat over the bank in St. John's Wood High Street. SIZE: 16.5" X 11 .75" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
When 103 year old children’s book author Estelle Craig asked Laura to paint the cover picture for her forthcoming publication, “The Pelicans of Palm Beach” Laura was pleased and honoured to be asked. Estelle had very specific ideas of how PeeWee should look and what...
A couple sit on a log with their infant son in a bucolic setting in 1923. SIZE: 13.5” X 19.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
In 1923 a woman, her young daughter and the baby are in the yard. SIZE: 18” X 1 2” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Fishermen angling just after dawn on the Pefferlaw River. SIZE: 15.5” X 10.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A child’s birthday party. His mother baked a cake for him. His parents and grandmother look on as he gets ready to blow out the candles. The children in the foreground are distracted by the photographer. SIZE: 13.5” X 19.5” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT:...
On an overcast day a young woman in a black turban carries her shoes as she wades ankle deep in the clear water near the shore. SIZE: 19” X 14” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
At the back of 2 Kensington Place in 1918 a woman holds her infant daughter aloft for a photograph to be taken. A church is in the background, likely the First Baptist Church. This old photograph is disintegrating. SIZE: 19” X 11” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT:...
A bright day in 1958. A man stares abstractedly at a table, deep in thought. Sunlight streams through the sheer curtains. SIZE: 13” X 17.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A young child is delighted by his reflection in a bedroom mirror. SIZE: 13” X 17” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
Rempel Manufacturing of Akron Ohio - the rubber Capitol of the world - made a line of latex squeeze toys called “Sunnyslope” from 1946 until 1968. A little girl wears a sombrero and throws a sideways glance as she sits facing her Sunnyslope walking duck, Mr....
Early winter or late spring: A small child in a white knitted hat holds the strap of a white bag. His mittens dangle from a string threaded through the sleeves of his snowsuit. His mother stands behind him wearing a fur coat and a turban, laughing. He is learning to...
A little boy poses holding a baseball bat. His tiny hands can barely support its weight and it droops. He wears his cap sideways, hoping he’ll be mistaken for Babe Ruth or Mickey Mantle. The shadow of a big swing falls on the ground beside him. A storm cloud hovers...
A couturière dresses elegantly for a pastoral outing. SIZE: 17.5” X 12” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330
A gentleman stands in front of a park bench in the west end of Toronto. It’s an overcast day sometime in the 1930s. The glaring interseasonal light just swipes his nose and chin, illuminating his white Eton collar and his shirt. SIZE: 19” X 12.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR...
The two semi-detached houses at 1327 and 1329 Queen Street East were built by William J. Hewitt in 1906-07 for John Coatsworth Graham, a prominent ice and coal dealer and prize-winning athlete whose son, Emerson sat in City council and whose daughter, Ella Maud...