“Painting nature’s quiet moments in expressive colour.”
Laura Gee is a London-based visual artist whose mark-making, colour and painterly gestures explore nature, a sense of place and time, emotions, motherhood and mental health.
Her playful, colourful works have been exhibited at The Garden Museum, Bankside Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery, and are held in private collections worldwide.
Laura’s work has been publicly commissioned, in 2024 UCLH Arts and Heritage Charity commissioned paintings for the outpatient department at UCLH; Laura’s work now appears across seven clinics and the reception area, chosen to have a positive impact on patients and staff.
In 2023 Imperial Health Charity commissioned an installation of 15 works for the new mental health unit at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
Her art explores emotions such as anxiety, peace, love, grief, certainty, uncertainty, hope, and joy through gestural, colourful pieces paragraph which represent nature.
About the work:
Laura Gee creates art that feels like an emotional landscape , layered, instinctive, and deeply connected to nature, memory, and wellbeing. Her paintings blend abstract mark-making with vibrant colour fields, creating works that sit between observation and feeling. Rather than depicting nature literally, she captures its emotional residue: the calm of gardens, the movement of water, the warmth of sunlight, and the quiet intimacy of everyday moments.
A defining quality of her work is its balance between spontaneity and tenderness. Loose painterly gestures and textured surfaces give her paintings energy and movement, while soft palettes and organic forms create a sense of comfort and reflection. Themes of motherhood, mental health, hope, anxiety, and healing run throughout her practice, making the work feel both deeply personal and universally relatable.
Her art is also rooted in mindfulness. Gee often speaks about “slowing down” and finding beauty in ordinary experiences flowers at a market, a familiar garden, changing seasons, or light moving through a room. This transforms her paintings into more than decorative abstractions; they become spaces for pause, emotional release, and reconnection.
Stylistically, her work sits between contemporary abstraction and expressive landscape painting. The combination of acrylic, oil pastel, gestural brushwork, and layered colour creates paintings that feel alive and immersive. Even in their abstraction, they maintain warmth and accessibility, which explains why her work has been successfully used in hospitals and wellbeing-focused public spaces.
