Laura Jane Scott is an artist working in minimalist, geometric abstraction and colour-field painting. Her work is an investigation of form, an exploration of colour and an exercise in finding balance.
Born in the UK in 1981, she studied at Camberwell College of Art and Ravensbourne University London.
Laura’s desire for formal simplicity and her striking use of colour has enabled her to produce work where painting explores a model of architectural form and where colour embodies a physical structure. The resulting work is a refined visual vocabulary of form and colour, a hybrid pf painting and sculpture.
The artist - At the centre of my work is play. I love to set some initial boundaries like working with a small palette of colours or a limited set of shapes and then follow the threads of ideas, experimenting and adjusting along the way. My work is part-process and part-intuition. An exploration of possibilities within limitations. And in the end, my aim is always to express an idea as simply and as elegantly as possible. To strip everything back to only what is necessary to achieve the perfect balance.
Laura lives in South East London with her partner and two young children and works from her dedicated home studio. Her work has been exhibited widely over the past eight years in London, Edinburgh, New York and Hamburg and has featured twice in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.