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'm also on Instagram.


    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
    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
    Previous Exhibitions
    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 2025