Laura is a St Albans-based painter working primarily in acrylics whose practice explores the emotional and symbolic power of light and colour in the landscape.

Her work focuses on fleeting moments of dramatic light, inviting a sense of awe in the everyday. Her ongoing search for light reflects deeper human themes where light becomes almost a metaphor for life’s struggles and the human condition: light felt as a beacon of hope through life’s uncertainties.

Her practice is an invitation on how light in the natural world can uplift, heal, and connect us to something deeper.

Drawing inspiration from the wild skies and rugged landscapes of Ireland’s Donegal, the turquoise seas of her native Italy, and her local woods in St Albans, Laura’s paintings are grounded in personal experience and her emotional response to nature.

Laura holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and has exhibited in shows in London, Hertfordshire and other regions in the UK.

EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS

2025    Harpenden Art Club annual exhibition, Harpenden (winner of the Artscape award)

2025    Broadway Arts Festival competition, juried group show, Theatrebarn, Bretforton

2025    Thrive and Glow, group show, Marks and Tilt, St Albans

2025    Open Studios at Kingsbury Barn, St Albans (6-8 September)

2025    St Albans Art Society annual exhibition, St Albans (commended)

2025    ‘Summer Idyll’, group show, Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket

2025    ‘Wynd Artist of the Year’ live painting competition, Letchworth (winner of the people’s choice award)

2025    St Albans Art Trail at Sofas & Stuff, St Albans

2025    Courtyard Open, Courtyard Arts Centre, Hertford

2025    “Sanctuary” group show, The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford, Derbyshire

2025    “Refraction” group show, 45thegallery, Mayfair, London

2024    Harpenden Art Club annual exhibition, Harpenden

2024    St Albans Artist Network 10th anniversary group exhibition, Marks & Tilt, St Albans

2024    St Albans Art Society annual exhibition, St Albans (highly commended)

2024    “Salt and Stars” group show, JM Gallery, London

2023    “Autumn” group show, Collective Art Gallery, St Albans

2008    group show, Gallery at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, London

2003    BA Fine Art Degree Show, Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London

2002    “Nelia Dimensions”, group show, Changing Room Gallery, Walthamstow, London

2001    “Lockers 1-5”, group show, Changing Room Gallery, Walthamstow, London

2001    “At First Hand”, solo show, Café Gallery, Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London

2001    “Resn8”, group show, The Studio, Beckenham, Kent