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Laura Jane Scott is an artist working in minimalist, geometric abstraction and colour-field painting. Her desire for formal simplicity and her striking use of colour enable 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.

The sleek, even coloured surfaces that characterise Laura’s work are achieved through a delicate process that produces a richly coloured, matt surface, free of gestural brush strokes. When displayed, the fields of saturated clean-edged colour appear to float on the surface of the wall.

“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.”