Gardens
West End Lane Gazebo
View of the brand new garden in West End Lane and the backs of houses in Priory Road, NW6. SIZE: 12.5” X 8” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
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
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
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
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...
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...
Sanctuary
The artist’s garden in Toronto in 2009 as it looked near the end of the summer with morning glories and sedum in bloom. SIZE: 22" X 20" MEDIUM: OIL PAINTING FINE ART PRINT $450 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Ragnar
The car, a bright red Volkswagen convertible was named after Ragnar, one of the most popular Viking heroes among the Norse themselves. He was a ninth century pirate and raider who was the scourge of England and France. By the time of this painting, Ragnar, the...
The Carioca
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
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
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....
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...
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...
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.”...
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