Artist Statement
I have never been interested in painting landscape for its own sake. I am more interested in what lingers in our memories and how we choose to reframe those experiences as time passes. The resulting landscapes occupy a space between observation and recollection. They offer recognition without certainty: places that may feel familiar but resist being fully located.
Working primarily in oil, I use the visual language of landscape as a point of departure. Through layering, revision, erasure, and reconstruction, each painting evolves through successive decisions rather than toward a predetermined outcome. Forms emerge, disappear, and are reconsidered, while traces of earlier decisions remain visible within the finished surface.
Artist Biography
Laura Roberts is a Hamilton-based painter working primarily in oil. She studied at the Visual Arts Centre, the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts, and Concordia University in Montreal, where she maintained a studio practice for more than a decade. Since 2021, she has worked from her studio at the Cotton Factory in Hamilton.
Her work has been exhibited in Quebec and Ontario, including the 2026 Society of Canadian Artists Open International Online Juried Exhibition.
Professional Memberships
Society of Canadian Artists
Women’s Art Association of Hamilton