Laura Roberts is a painter based in Hamilton, Ontario.

Her work explores the relationship between surface and space without narrative. Through layered fields of colour and texture, she creates environments that appear open yet remain partially inaccessible to the viewer.

In the Prairie Series, the horizon divides the canvas into tension and release. Although the landscape appears expansive, the space remains compressed, creating scenes that can be sensed but not fully entered. Rather than describing a specific place, these paintings focus on the experience of standing in a landscape when movement slows and the air becomes still.

Her Koi in Winter series shifts the viewpoint downward into frigid water and ice. These paintings examine the surface as a threshold. Reflection, opacity, and movement obscure what lies beneath, allowing only brief glimpses into the depth below.

Roberts works primarily in oil and fluid acrylic, building layered surfaces that reveal traces of earlier decisions and accumulated time.

Roberts maintains a studio in the Cotton Factory, Hamilton, Ontario.