1. LARGER WORKS
2. SMALLER WORKS
3. WORKS ON PAPER
4. EXHIBITIONS
Previous Exhibitions
Passengers
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
3 July - 20th July 2024
Marlborough Open Studios
Parnella House, Devizes
Weekends in July 2024
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
3 July - 20th July 2024
Marlborough Open Studios
Parnella House, Devizes
Weekends in July 2024
CARNEVALE, FRIENDLY LITTLE MONSTERS
Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, Hatton Garden, London
7 December 2023 - 4 January 2024
Landform
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
30 August - 10 September 2023
WCG Open Exhibition
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
3 - 26 August 2023
Line Of Sight
Shaftesbury Arts Centre
7 - 20 June 2023
Bath Society of Artists 118th Annual Exhibition
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, Hatton Garden, London
7 December 2023 - 4 January 2024
Landform
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
30 August - 10 September 2023
WCG Open Exhibition
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
3 - 26 August 2023
Line Of Sight
Shaftesbury Arts Centre
7 - 20 June 2023
Bath Society of Artists 118th Annual Exhibition
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
22 April - 24 June 2023
5. ABOUT / 6. CONTACT
I like it when ancient standing stones look as if they're in conversation with one another. I like it when I find a radar station on top of a snowy hill. I like the sense of space when looking down from a ridge at the pattern of fields below.
To begin with, I draw outdoors in front of the landscape sitting in wet grass in waterproofs or in the summer dust, whether that's at home in Wiltshire, or on field trips to places like Dungeness or North Uist. This is for me to look closely enough at what's there to download the important parts to memory. I use notes for colour — a Galaxy chocolate-coloured field or taramasalata-coloured shingle. Back at the studio these working drawings are translated into larger drawings and colour paint sketches.
These beginnings then become semi-abstract paintings that are as much about the feeling of a location as they are a representation, and invite the viewer to look through the surface of the painting to the sense of the place itself.
To begin with, I draw outdoors in front of the landscape sitting in wet grass in waterproofs or in the summer dust, whether that's at home in Wiltshire, or on field trips to places like Dungeness or North Uist. This is for me to look closely enough at what's there to download the important parts to memory. I use notes for colour — a Galaxy chocolate-coloured field or taramasalata-coloured shingle. Back at the studio these working drawings are translated into larger drawings and colour paint sketches.
These beginnings then become semi-abstract paintings that are as much about the feeling of a location as they are a representation, and invite the viewer to look through the surface of the painting to the sense of the place itself.
© Laura Barnard 2025