I like it when ancient standing stones look as if they're in conversation with one another. I like it when I find a radar station on top of a snowy hill. I like the sense of space when looking down from a ridge at the pattern of fields below.

To begin with, I draw outdoors in front of the landscape sitting in wet grass in waterproofs or in the summer dust, whether that's at home in Wiltshire, or on field trips to places like Dungeness or North Uist. This is for me to look closely enough at what's there to download the important parts to memory. I use notes for colour — a Galaxy chocolate-coloured field or taramasalata-coloured shingle. Back at the studio these working drawings are translated into larger drawings and colour paint sketches.

These beginnings then become semi-abstract paintings that are as much about the feeling of a location as they are a representation, and invite the viewer to look through the surface of the painting to the sense of the place itself.

To contact me, you can email me, or call + 44 7747 305420. I also send out a quarterly email newsletter, and publish links to my blog posts on Instagram.

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Collections:

Avebury Summer 2025

Studies and paintings from summer in Avebury.

Dungeness 2024

Drawings, studies and paintings from a trip to Dungeness in the height of summer.

Winter At Avebury 2024

Studies and paintings of stones, bare trees, crows and jackdaws.

Spring In Wiltshire

A selection of smaller works completed in Spring 2024 of the local area – mostly Roundway, Silbury Hill and Oliver’s Castle.

Pylons On Roundway

A fascination with the pylons on Roundway Hill and their place in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and documenting their removal (due to said AONB).

Silbury Hill Flooded In Winter

Small paintings and drawings of the water that appears around Silbury Hill every winter.

Wiltshire

A selection of local scenes painted in 2023.

Avebury

A first reaction to painting and drawing at Avebury in 2023

Exhibitions:

Upcoming Exhibitions

A Winter’s Tale
An exhibition of small-scale works
Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, Hatton Garden, London
17 November 2026 - 22 January 2027

Previous Exhibitions

Marlborough Open Studios
This year, by appointment only
Devizes July 2026

ING Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
14-23 November 2025

Bath Society of Artists 120th Annual Exhibition
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
18 October 2025 - 10 January 2026

Salisbury Landscape Open 2025
Salisbury Museum, Salisbury
18 October 2025 - 25 January 2026

Marlborough Open Studios
Parnella House, Devizes July 2025

Archipelago
Parnella House, Devizes
18 April - 10 May 2025

Bath Society of Artists 119th Annual Exhibition
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
13 October 2024 - 11 January 2025

Passengers
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
3 July - 20th July 2024

Marlborough Open Studios
Parnella House, Devizes
Weekends in July 2024

WCG Open Exhibition
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
4 - 20 April 2024

CARNEVALE, FRIENDLY LITTLE MONSTERS
Vivienne Roberts Projects, The Bindery, Hatton Garden, London
7 December 2023 - 4 January 2024

Landform
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
30 August - 10 September 2023

WCG Open Exhibition
White Chalk Gallery: Fine Art, Devizes
3 - 26 August 2023

Line Of Sight
Shaftesbury Arts Centre
7 - 20 June 2023

Bath Society of Artists 118th Annual Exhibition
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
22 April - 24 June 2023

Laura Barnard

Beginning to understand the concrete blocks :