Artist Biography
Laura Roberts is a Hamilton-based painter working primarily in oil. Using the visual language of landscape as a point of departure, her work evokes memory, experience, and the personal narratives we construct. Her paintings evolve through layering, revision, erasure, and reconstruction, creating images that exist between observation and recollection.
Roberts studied at the Visual Arts Centre, the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts, and Concordia University in Montreal. She maintains a studio at the Cotton Factory in Hamilton.
Artist Statement
I have never been interested in painting landscape for its own sake. I use the visual language of landscape as a point of departure to consider what we retain or reject from the places we have known.
Working primarily in oil, I build my paintings through layering, revision, erasure, and reconstruction. They evolve slowly through successive decisions rather than a predetermined outcome. Earlier layers remain beneath the surface, leaving visible traces of the painting's history.
I am less interested in describing a place than in what lingers after the experience. Over time, places become inseparable from our recollections, the choices we make, and what they come to represent.