Laura Williams

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Artist Statement

My practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and site-specific sculpture — a continuum of materials and gestures that explore presence, process, and the intimacy of touch. Over more than thirty years, I’ve developed a language that moves between studio and landscape, between the immediacy of mark-making and the slow time of natural change.

Whether working with oil paint, plaster, paper, or found materials, I’m drawn to surfaces that hold memory. Making for me is both physical and contemplative — an exchange between control and chance, between what can be planned and what arrives unexpectedly. That tension keeps the work alive.

Painting outdoors — often directly within the Spanish landscape — forms an essential part of my process. Working en plein air allows a dialogue with weather, light, and place; the act of painting becomes a record of being there, responsive and temporal. These encounters with the natural world often inform larger studio works and the sculptural installations I build in Catalonia.

My path as a maker began with modelmaking for international exhibitions and large-scale corporate events — a formative period that taught me precision, construction, and material understanding. Later, as an Art Handling Technician at Tate and Manchester Art Gallery, I deepened my respect for craftsmanship and the unseen labour of presentation. Teaching and community projects followed, reinforcing the value of connection, process, and shared experience within creative practice.

Now based in Bristol, I divide my time between studio and landscape, revisiting the tactile, layered, and time-based qualities that thread through all my work.

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