ABOUT
Laura Todd is a visual artist living and working in Seattle, WA. Her work explores objects and spaces found in nature or in rural, urban and domestic environments. Laura received a BFA in Painting from the University of Victoria at OUC in 1995 and an MA in Art History from the University of Washington in 2020.
“My work often begins with direct observation of the world around me — elements from nature, landscape, rural and urban environments, the spaces of daily life. I make quick sketches on location and those field notes become the references for my studio work.
Through layered processes of painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage, I build up surfaces that begin with recognizable references and then evolve beyond literal representation. As mark-making accumulates, the work develops its own logic — perspectives bend, trees drift into impossible positions, horizon lines fracture and multiply.
This transformation fascinates me: how does meaning shift when an observed landscape becomes a constructed surface?
My current work explores this territory between the real and the reimagined, questioning the stories we construct about our visual experiences and the changeable nature of place and memory.”