Inside Out
Victoria Road Interior
Wicker chairs with densely patterned cushions sit before a window through which can be seen the garden wall and neighbouring houses in Victoria Road, Cowes, IOW. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Villars Interior/Exterior
The opened balcony door reveals and reflects the Dents Du Midi in the Chablais Alps of Switzerland. In the foreground are several spent bottles of quite good wine. SIZE: 16" X 11.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Two Windows
The imperfections of the 120 year old window glass serve to amplify the appearance of frenetic energy in the angular branches of the trees outside the window. Those shapes are echoed by the flowers in the jug on the counter and their shadows, the rims of the light...
Telly, Stoke Newington
An unnaturally shallow television sporting a jug of chrysanthemums in front of the window in Farleigh Road. SIZE: 12” X 8.25” MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $250 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Duck Of Urbino
A planter formed like a duck sits on the windowsill in the garret of the flat at Broadview Avenue, overlooking the Don Valley and Toronto skyline. The “Duck” of Urbino in the title of this painting is a reference to the portrait of the Duke of Urbino, Federico da...
Blue Deck Chair
Furniture in the chalet at Argentieres included a bright blue deck chair. SIZE: 21" X 14" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT $330 DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Still Life With Fan
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
Plant And Bird
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:...
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Since this was painted, the cement hydro pole has been replaced by a wood chip pole and the big elm to the right was chopped down.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:...
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...
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...
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...
Good Tea Is Better Value
Painted in 1982 at Challoner Mansions, a flat in Kensington. The painting was sold at a gallery show in Toronto. In 1985 it was accepted as an exhibit at the Prix International d’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo, Monaco but since the purchaser of the painting was...
Alstroemaria
A bouquet of Alstroemaria in a crystal Dartington vase on the dining room table at West End Lane. Laura bought these particular flowers at the flower market in Kilburn High Road, but she also grew alstroemaria in her garden. SIZE: 20" X 13.5" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE...
Money Talks
The sitting room at West End Lane with an English woman and a North American man having a polite conversation, keeping their true feelings to themselves. The painting illustrates the role politics plays in social interaction. SIZE: 22" X 14" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR...
Still Life with Delft and Mirror
A Delft shoe and trinket box that always stood on the artist’s mother’s dresser holding bits of jewelery, safety pins and buttons. The desk belonged to Laura's father. The exaggerated perspective of the window reflected in the mirror gives the image a sense of other...
Inside Out
This view of the couch and the window out into the garden from the sitting room of the annex at Mornington is the counterpart to the painting, “Outside In.” SIZE: 16" X 12" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR ORIGINAL SOLD
Bedroom at Mornington
A view out of the window from a bedroom in the annex at Mornington looking up the hill in Cowes, Isle of Wight. The annex was a newer (newer than 1842) two storey portion of the building that contained a kitchen with one of the oldest gas ovens on the Isle of Wight...
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...
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...
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
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