Painted during two very hot spells in July and August, 2013. SIZE: 13" X 19.5" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Paintings
Hydro Pole
Since this was painted, the cement hydro pole has been replaced by a wood chip pole and the big elm to the right was chopped down. In summer its canopy of green leaves was very beautiful. In the winter it resembled a dowager dressed in lace. SIZE: 13.5” X 20” MEDIUM:...
Bryn’s Room
There were two doors opening onto the balcony at 54 Queensgate Terrace. One from the sitting room and one from Bryn's bedroom. The objects in the room integrate with the reflection in the glass of the buildings across the street and the sky to the south. This painting...
Bosham
A boat tethered at the shore by the road in Bosham Harbour, Sussex, at low tide. When the tide is high the boat is afloat and the road is underwater. SIZE: 8" X 12" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Band
A painting of our band at the Rex based on a photograph taken by Gary Nicholson in May, 2010. SIZE: 9.5” X 20”" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250 57 Minutes This painting was used in cover artwork of Laura Marks' CD "57 Minutes". DIGITAL LICENSE:...
The Ashbridge Estate
Sarah Ashbridge travelled from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada with her family in the spring of 1793. They purchased a large block of land east of the present day Greenwood Avenue. Their land ran from the lakeshore to just north of Danforth Avenue. Theirs was the fourth...
Dunbarton
In 1832 William Dunbar laid out a town site near the Kingston Road which was later relocated and called Fairport/Dunbarton. When the Grand Trunk Railway arrived it passed close enough to warrant a station. In time the area around the station developed into the village...
Bowmanville
This house on Wellington Street in Bowmanville was built in the high Victorian style. Over the years additions in various other styles were added. The original house was a simple one-and-a-half storey Georgian structure built by Marshal Porter, who emigrated from...
Hogarth
The main portion of this Riverdale home was built in 1875 by Thomas Hogarth, principal of York Township School. In 1882 he sold it to his daughter Elinora Heys and her husband, who added the north wing and verandah. It remained in the Heys family until 1964 when it...
Gooderham and Worts Flatiron Building
The Gooderham and Worts "Flatiron" Building was constructed in 1892 by George Gooderham in the French Modern Gothic style. The building housed the offices of Gooderham and Worts, which George Gooderham built into a vast financial and commercial empire. Gooderham’s own...
Maple Cottage
Maple Cottage is one of the few intact examples of a traditional Ontario workers’ cottage in Toronto. According to legend, the silver maple that stood in front of it inspired the song by Alexander Muir, ”The Maple Leaf Forever.” In 2013 the tree was blown over in a...
The Blackburn Barn
Polygonal buildings originated with the eccentric American author, Orson Squire Fowler, who wrote on a variety of subjects, including phrenology: the study of bumps on the head. He made a fortune from sales of his sex manual, which he published in the 1840s. In 1849...
Meadowvale
Meadowvale Village became Ontario’s first heritage village in the late 1980s. The buildings were restored through grants and loans available to homeowners at the time. The original settlement started in 1831 with two sawmills and a carding mill. By 1880 the village...
Streetsville Railway Station
The Credit Valley Railway was completed in 1879 with the first train departing from Streetsville junction on September 19th. The building’s overhanging roof provided shelter for the passengers while the turret served as an office, offering a clear view of the tracks...
Rosemont Schoolhouse
Union School, No. 17 Mono Township was constructed in 1890 just west of the village of Rosemont. It was a two room school built on the land of a farmer, William McNabb. In 1968, when the new Mulmur-Mono school opened, Union School No. 17 closed it‘s doors. The...
Unionville Congregational Church
In 1879, the Unionville members of the Congregational Church built a new building to replace and amalgamate the meeting places in Markham and Unionville. The new church was designed by Casa Loma architect, Edward Lennox. The land was donated by the Braithwaite family....
Levellands
While doing research for the Toronto Real Estate Board calendar the heritage officer for Richmond Hill asked Laura to paint a picture of a house in his area that had significant historic value but was still threatened with demolition. The house, Levellands, had been...
Casa Loma
Toronto’s famous castle was designed by Edward Lennox for the wealthy Sir Henry Pellat, who received a knighthood for building the first Canadian generating station at Niagara Falls. The Pellat family lived at Casa Loma from 1914 to 1923. For a time the castle was...
Flowers That Bloom in June
Flowers that bloom in the south of England in June; Roses, Flag Irisies, Morning Glories. SIZE: 13.5" X 5" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $75 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Golden Wedding
Sunflowers and Irises in a Dartington vase painted for a Golden Wedding anniversary present. SIZE: 21" X 14" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
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...
Crest, Hampstead Town Hall
Hampstead Town Hall began life as the Vestry Hall of Hampstead Parish. It was built in 1878 with money raised by public subscription by the people of Hampstead. In 1910, after the re-organisation of local government, it was officially renamed the Town Hall. After...
Spanish Brandy
Five bottles of Spanish Brandy placed in front of the Eastern wall of the Mezquita-Catedral of Cordoba, a fabulous and interesting building whose construction began around the year 600 as the Christian Visigothic Church of St. Vincent, the patron saint of Lisbon and...
Elizabeth
Elizabeth playing the piano at the house on Sherbourne Street. SIZE: 24” X 24” MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD
Snake Charmer With Shoes
She’s a seasoned cabaret artist who performs with snakes. A spotted snake coils around her neck. Her black evening gown has lots of little bows on it and she has lots of feet, unlike the snake. She sits at the make-up table in her dressing room, which is connected to...
The Farther You Go
One of two pictures illustrating the saying, The farther you go, the farther you see. The traveler is leaving his narrow black and white urban view to seek knowledge in the world outside. SIZE: 8.25” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE...
The Farther You See
Painted along the lines of an Albrecht Durer landscape to illustrate the idea that the benefit of experience is in having a wider, subtler and deeper understanding of life. SIZE: 8.25” X 8.25” MEDIUM: GUACHE PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE...
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 Hampstead...
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...
Clothesline
Painted in the garden of a worker’s cottage in Victoria Road, Cowes during Cowes Week. Victoria Road leads out of Cowes towards Newport and starts at The Duke of York Pub at the edge of the town centre. There was an air of an earlier age in the Cowes of the 1980s. It...
The Green Bank
Boats moored in Falmouth Harbour on a cloudy day. The green bank in the background is where Roger Moore, of The Saint and James Bond fame was said to own a house. SIZE: 12” X 16” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Nica’s Dream
Nica, the pretty little Siamese kitten shared the house at Sherbourne and Dundas Streets with Awry the cat, Chance the dog and various humans. Her mistress, Liz, an accomplished pianist, loved the song Nica's Dream by Horace Silver and loved the sound of the the name...
Royal Yacht Squadron
True to the artist’s proclivity for red herrings, this picture of the Royal Yacht Squadron was painted from a boat designer’s basement apartment across the way, contrasting the peeling paint with the grandiosity of the yacht club. The Royal Yacht Squadron was founded...
Snowstorm In La Grave
The grandeur of the mountains and the silent snow falling in this picture of a snowy day in the mountains evokes a feeling of peace. The muted colours in the shadow of the snow on the roof echo the colour of the sky in the distance and serve as a contrast to the earth...
Sun Valley
The sun shining on a red roof and an alp in early spring when the branches start to turn gold. SIZE: 13.5" X 19.5" MEDIUM: watercolour FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Lobster
In a house that the artist and friends rented during Cowes week one year the owners had varnished the one-clawed body of a lobster and mounted it on their sitting room wall over a plaque which read: “What a feast! Our wedding feast Friday April 23 What a feast!” SIZE:...
Another Country
The mist in the valley, the clarity of the mountain view and the panorama made this subject seem like not only another country but maybe another planet. SIZE: 14" X 21" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD
Bird In Tree
After Laura completed the watercolour painting Les Dents diu Midi in Villars she painted a bird in a pine tree beyond the balcony on a misty day. SIZE: 11” X 6” MEDIUM: watercolour ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE...
Cliff near Gurnard
Laura and a fellow artist took a walk along the sea front from Cowes towards Gurnard one day in the Isle of Wight in search of a subject to sketch. They found this cliff. SIZE: 12” X 15” MEDIUM: watercolour Fine Art Print $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Pomme Anjou
Towards the end of one of the annual skiing trips to the Alps this apple box containing a few lonely groceries sat out on the balcony. The misty mountain view beyond the balcony contrasts with the strong foreground colours, creating a sense of distance. SIZE: 21.5" X...
Puddle
Sears Street is a lane that runs parallel to Memory Lane south of Queen Street in Leslieville. During a walk in the area while on a visit to Toronto from England Laura photographed this scene of a puddle, took it home to London and painted this picture while the...
Toronto Skyline
Laura’s brother, Paul took the photograph upon which this painting was based and sent it to her by post to London. While she painted the watercolour in London and in Cowes, she happened to be reading the Mordecai Richler novel, Barney’s Version, which also takes place...
Cheshire Pia
Pia is so fast asleep in her chair that she is disappearing into dreamland. SIZE: 11.5" X 9" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Eugene’s Pickle Patch
Eugene, the landlord of the flat on Broadview Avenue grew cucumbers in the back garden, which he called his pickles. It’s likely they were dill cucumbers and ended up being pickled. SIZE: 19" X 24.5" MEDIUM: carbon PENCIL DRAWING FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE...
Self Portrait(s)
Two images of the artist in front of a window: one in an ordinary mirror and one in a fish eye mirror. Purchased by Glaxo Pharmaceuticals for their permanent collection. SIZE: 30" X 28" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT: $540 DIGITAL LICENSE...
Sharleen
Sharleen at Sherbourne Street in the third floor studio knitting baby clothes for her first child, Anais. SIZE: 24" X 18.5" MEDIUM: oil GICLÉE: $450 SIZE: 32" X 34" MEDIUM: oil GICLÉE: $540
Dante Takes A Trip #1
Painted especially for a group show at the Francis Kyle Gallery in Mayfair. The theme of the exhibition was the first book of Dante’s Inferno where Dante is lost in the forest and Virgil appears descending from a mountain to be his guide. Laura took the different...
London Pride
A plastic bottle of London Pride sits in front of a window in Cowes, Isle of Wight. SIZE: 12" X 8" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Strange Fruit #2
When the artist saw a pile of Charentais melons in the local Safeways in London she laughed out loud because of their remarkable similarity to a pile of naked breasts. She bought two melons, took them home and constructed an imaginary woman around them; a composite of...
Self Portrait 1984
A self portrait of the artist dating from her residency in Mazenod Avenue, mysteriously titled Study Number 1. There may have been a number 2 at some point but its whereabouts are unknown. SIZE: 14.5" X 11.5" MEDIUM: PENCIL DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE