Collection: Laurence

Born in France, Laurence was educated in Paris and Britain.

Her immediate environment, the embodiment of all the cities she lived in or imagined, and the everyday world are her uninterrupted source of inspiration. A simple bus ride becomes an opportunity to mentally collect lines, shapes, colours, and perspectives as the material for future painting. The unsung urban traces grab her attention, reappearing as a touch of nostalgia in her work. As a result, her work can be seen as daily visual diary of life in a 21^st century European city.

Her process can be defined by a permanent equilibrium between control and chaos. Control through the applications of various techniques and the use of mixed media such as sand, acrylic, pigments, inks, Posca pens, pastels, found objects, and collages. Chaos as the layering, mixing, superposing, leads to unexpected and dynamic combinations. Applying, washing, layering colours is a process which echoes what she feels is the essence of her experience as a human being: never being able to completely grasp a place or a person, questioning rather than building certitudes, the reality of the world she tries to understand always shifting.