Surreal
Tim Reading
Tim relaxes, reading The Guardian in the garden at Mazenod Avenue on a balmy spring evening after work. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
The Embassy Pool Hall
The old Embassy Pool Hall in Bellair Street, Yorkville. Many a misspent youthful hour was enjoyed there. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Talk Talk
An overbearing man won't shut up. He struts and frets and yammers on. A woman sits in a chair, nonplussed. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Farleigh Road
Looking out the window at Elton's flat in Stoke Newington to see a Morris Minor parked out front. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Daydream
An imaginary woman pauses while reading a book to gaze abstractedly through the foliage. Leaning back on her chaise lounge, She loses herself in her reverie. SIZE: 8.25” X 10.5” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Dancers
People dancing at a party as the band plays on. SIZE: 10.5” X 8.25” MEDIUM: PEN DRAWING DIGITAL LICENSE AVAILABLE
Cowes Sea Front
This was a complete fantasy based on on a tirade uttered by a yachtie who said the motor boat people are cads and bounders with gold chains, open shirts and hairy chests, and their women wear stiletto heels on the cobblestones of the High Street. SIZE: 10.5” X 8”...
Jazz Bistro
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...
PeeWee The Pelican
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...
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...
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, Disappearing
Painted after returning to London from the countryside. It describes the sensation of being plunged into different surroundings then returning to a formerly familiar environment that now feels foreign. SIZE: 20" X 14" MEDIUM: WATERCOLOUR FINE ART PRINT: $330 DIGITAL...
Modern Times
The man sitting on the toilet is sucking in the real world through his mouth and blowing bubbles out of the top of his head. It’s a commentary on how the obvious can be elusive because of all the distractions and pretensions present in our culture. SIZE: 14" X 21"...
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...