Laura Jane Scott

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

Laura studied at Camberwell College of Arts and Ravensbourne University London. Her work has been exhibited widely over the past eight years in London, Edinburgh, New York and Hamburg and has featured twice in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition.

‘At the centre of my work is play. I’m inspired a lot by open-ended toys; simple objects and structures that act as canvases to project ideas onto. Things that can be arranged and rearranged. A vocabulary of loose parts.

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.’

Laura focuses on and has been exploring form and colour and the dynamic relationship between the two. She describes her work as an effort to give colour a tangible form, almost a sense of weight. Recently, she’s begun to experiment with reducing or removing some of that form, leaving behind voids or spaces within the colour itself. She is particularly drawn to the shadows cast by her relief works and have been exploring ways to interact more intentionally with these shadows.

LAURA JANE SCOTT | NORDIC ART AGENCY ARCHIVE

Laura Jane Scott was represented and exhibited by Nordic Art Agency as part of its international programme of contemporary artists. Their work and exhibition history are presented here as part of the Nordic Art Agency Archive, documenting two decades of artists, exhibitions and collaborations developed by founder Juliet Rees Davies.

Rees Davies Art Advisory continues to work across this established international network of artists, alongside sourcing new work through galleries, studios and the wider contemporary art market.