Contact
Mrs Sarah-Jayne McIntosh
Phone
07747030511
Address
Friars Hill
Owler Park Road
Ilkley
Yorkshire
LS29 0BH
Laura Wallace grew up in Yorkshire and has painted all her life. She studied Drama and Theatre Design at Exeter University before a Diploma in Interior Design which led to three years working for the Harrods Interior Design Team managing a wide range of international projects and becoming one of their chief visualisers. She then attended Heatherleys School of Fine Art enrolling in a variety of courses from life drawing to watercolour and finally settling on oil which became her preferred medium.
Laura is hugely influenced by the Scottish Colourists and regards, Cadell, Hunter and Peploe as her favourite artists together with Anne Redpath's still lifes. She is also inspired by the Impressionists - she loves Cezanne's use of complementary colour and the fragility of Manet's final flower paintings.
Her main themes are seascapes, flowers and landscapes. She spends every summer in Orkney where the kaleidoscopic landscape and ever-changing skies make for magical and challenging conditions to paint.
In Yorkshire she is inspired by the beauty of the Dales through the seasons, from bluebell woods to snow scenes. Laura's flower paintings are at the centre of her work and she enjoys capturing Old Roses in a vintage jug, experimenting with coloured glass, silver and porcelain and a multitude of blooms from tulips to hellebores.