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.”
Studied Simplicity - AVIVA St Helen’s Building, London
Take One Shape - The Foundry Gallery, London
Reassembled - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Winter Exhibition - with Kittoe Contemporary
Winter Group Show - Linden Hall Studio, Deal
Annual Winter Exhibition - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Painting Open 2023 - No Format Gallery, London
Winter Auction - with Art on a Postcard
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea - with Kittoe Contemporary
ARRAY Group Show - Copper Beech Café, Dulwich
Summer Auction - with Art on a Postcard
London Art Fair - with Kittoe Contemporary
30 : : 30 - &Gallery, Edinburgh
SSA 130 Years Annual Exhibition - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Annual Winter Exhibition - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Xmas Open - Outset Gallery, Galway
Curious Kudu - with Kittoe Contemporary
London Art Fair - with Kittoe Contemporary
Expanded Painting - Air Gallery, Altrincham
Works on Paper - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Annual Winter Exhibition - &Gallery, Edinburgh
A Generous Space - Hastings Contemporary
Summer Exhibition 2021 - Royal Academy of Arts, London
RSA Annual Exhibition - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Quite/Very Concrete Salon - curated by James D Wilson
4th Anniversary Exhibition - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Tiny Yet Mighty - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Annual Winter Exhibition - &Gallery, Edinburgh
Configurate - &Gallery, Edinburgh
SSA and VAS Open 2019 - Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Air Open 2019 - Air Gallery, Altrincham
Painting Open 2018 - No Format Gallery, London
Perfectly Small - The Foundry Gallery, London
Painting Open 2017 - No Format Gallery, London
Creekside Open 2017 - APT Gallery, London
Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy of Arts, London
