The flowers in the garden at West End Lane painted over one summer as if they were all in bloom at once. The visual rhythms evoke the tune, “The Carioca.”. SIZE: 18" X 26"" MEDIUM: OIL PINTING ORIGINAL SOLD DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Paintings
Outside In
A painting of the kitchen window at the back of Mornington, Cowes, Isle of Wight. The original house, Mornington, dated back to the 1830's. The kitchen was part of a warren of outbuildings adjoining the splendid original house. Sadly, the house, which was the subject...
Lobelias
The house at West End Lane was a typical mid Victorian English house with a lower ground floor originally used for the kitchen and wine cellar. By the 1980s the house was divided into two two storey flats with a separate freehold. The bedrooms for the lower flat were...
Janneau in the Garden
A bottle of armagnac and two brandy snifters on a blue and white gingham tablecloth in the rose garden at West End Lane. The garden is reflected in the windows of the door. SIZE: 21" X 14"" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Janneaux Offices, Condom
Laura painted this watercolour over 12 days in late October in Condom, France. The weather was quite chilly and when it started to rain after a couple of days the proprietor of her hotel kindly offered the use of one of the parasols with a stone base that they used to...
African Violet
An African Violet on the Wilton carpet in the studio. There is a characteristic red herring in the form of the strip of wood floor on the right side of the painting. SIZE: 14" X 18 " MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Allitson Road
A view of the roof tops and the chimneypots of Allitson Road from the third floor bedroom at the flat over the bank in St. John’s Wood High Street. SIZE: 14" X 22" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE...
205 Yonge Street
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
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
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
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
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 SOLD...
Sarah
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 PAINTING FINE ART...
New Year’s Eve
New Year's Eve, 2011. Partygoers in the Penthouse of The Cosmopolitan Hotel. SIZE: 8" X 10" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Lilies of the Nile
The garden at West End Lane. The working name of this picture was “Round Midnight” because the song was a recurrent theme in the artist’s head while she painted this picture. After completion Laura named it for the tall blue flowers whose proper name is Agapanthus....
BMW 2002 Tii luxe
Laura’s favourite car parked outside the flat in Mazenod Avenue across the road from St. Mary Sacred Heart Catholic Church. The car was the first in a string of BMWs that got progressively newer and more staid. St. Mary's Sacred Heart Church was the biggest Catholic...
Monkey & Parrot
The monkey was found in the attic of a house in Islington, North London beside a stack of pornographic magazines, wearing women's lingerie. It reverted to its natural state (sans panties, bra and garter belt) and traveled with its new owner from Islington to Great...
Parents
Painted at West End Lane for a solo exhibition at Nancy Poole’s Studio in Yorkville while the artist’s parents, Ben and Sylvia visited her in London from Toronto. SIZE: 24" X 23" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
November
The Sycamore tree next door in West End Lane. The picture was painted for a group show at the Francis Kyle Gallery, London, England, whose theme was the first book of “Dante’s Inferno”. the tree was probably chosen for its tenuous connection to a forest. Dante was...
Marysia
Marysia was a friend Laura met in sailing circles in Cowes, Isle of Wight. She posed holding a glass of Chablis, her favourite tipple. SIZE: 36" X 26" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $540 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Wolseley
The handsome and extremely intelligent black cat, son of Cassiopeia, was named after a little black automobile spotted on the motorway which he resembled when he was a kitten. He was at various times also called “Woolly” and “Albert Einstein.” SIZE: 21" X 14" MEDIUM:...
Deedee
One of the few Laura Marks oil paintings painted on board instead of linen. The figure of Deedee stands out because of and despite the strong floral motif of the background. SIZE: 24" X 16" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $450 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Tim
A young solicitor at home in Mazenod Avenue reading an old lease and enjoying his evening cup of tea by the fire. Glaxo Pharmaceuticals collection. SIZE: 30" X 36" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $450 DIGITAL LICENSE...
Josephine
A girl who wrote poetry. She once threw a second shoe into a lake to join the first shoe that had fallen off. SIZE: 32" X 34" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT: $540 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Elversele
Elversele is a village in Belgium between Antwerp and Brussels. The bricks are part of the wall of a 400 year old farmhouse. SIZE: 11.5” X 7.75” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL: SOLD FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
In Memoriam
In memory of a friend lost to cancer. The garden is a place of innocence where the vulnerable and fleeting beauty of the flowers is nurtured, a restorative place for contemplation. SIZE: 18.5" X 12" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE...
Susannah’s Pony
During a walk along “Mud Lane” near Langstone Harbour in Hampshire, four year old Susannah, sitting on her grandfather Peter’s shoulders was enthralled by the sight of a miniature pony in a field near Warblington. SIZE: 7.75" X 11.75" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL:...
Spanish Harlem
The back of the house in West End Lane. The metal work on the windows evoked the air of a Spanish balcony. Along with the red rose at the top of the fence the scene evoked the song, Spanish Harlem. “There is a rose in Spanish Harlem, a red rose up in Spanish Harlem.”...
Volvo
The volvo was a spare parts car parked in a field of a farm and riding stables near Newmarket, Ontario. SIZE: 7.75" X 11" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Chimney Pots
The chimney pots were moved from the flat in Mazenod Avenue to the garden at West End Lane and placed under the Chestnut tree to be used as planters. SIZE: 20" X 13" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Summer in Leslieville
The garden in Toronto in early summer at the time of the first flush of roses, irises and the flowering of the peony. SIZE: 16" X 12" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE