ABOUT / CV / Painting Process
Painting nature’s quiet moments in expressive colour.
Studio Portrait 2020 by photographer Hannah Lovemore
Laura Gee is a visual artist working and living in London. Through mark making, colour and painterly gestures, Laura creates works which explore nature, a sense of place and time, emotions, motherhood and mental health.
Laura’s art is emotive, exploring feelings of anxiety, peace, love, grief, certainty and uncertainty , hope and joy. Laura’s mission is to enable others to create art through simple accessible ways, to improve their wellbeing and mental health.
Her work has been exhibited at The Garden Museum, Bankside Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery to name a few. Laura’s playful and colourful artwork has been publicly and privately commissioned, and are in private collections around the world.
Her work has been commissioned by Imperial Health Charity, resulting in an installation of 15 pieces of work for a new mental health unit at St Mary’s Hospital, London in 2023. In 2024, Laura was commissioned by UCLH Arts and Heritage Charity to create paintings for the outpatient department at UCLH. Her work is throughout 7 clinics and reception at the outpatients department, to positively impact the service users and staff.
Laura creates art that is emotive, exploring feelings of anxiety, peace, love, grief, certainty and uncertainty , hope and joy. Laura’s mission is to enable others to create art through simple accessible ways, to improve their wellbeing and mental health.
Alongside Laura’s practise, she has developed and led her nature inspired art workshops for The Garden Museum, Hackney Arts Charity, Hospital Rooms and Great Ormond Street Hospital. Laura has created and led nature inspired art workshops in primary schools, for ages 3-11.
Laura is currently developing a series of accessible art workshops for mothers to help explore emotions throughout motherhood, and improve their wellbeing and mental health, after she herself experienced maternal mental health issues. Alongside support from the NHS, she also found that the simple, meditative use of mark making helped and is now working on delivering workshops in the borough of Waltham Forest.
“My work is influenced by the idea of pausing to be present in moments of nature and finding joy in everyday life.
Living in London, I have sought time with nature more and more and have cherished even small moments.
This notion of being present translates itself in the studio as I get into a state of flow and become totally present in creating painterly marks and colour-filled pieces."
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.
CV
Laura Gee
Education
Manchester School of Art BA degree — 2004-2008
NCN - art foundation year - Nottingham 2008
Selected Exhibitions, Art Fairs
● 2026 - Love Letter To… , Art Snug Gallery, Group Show
● 2026 - Little Wonders, Three Room Gallery, London, Group Show
● 2025 - ‘Waltham in Colour’ , Art Snug, London, Group show
● 2025 - Amsterdam,HLTH group show- UCLH arts charity
● 2025 - Waltham Collective, group show
● 2025 - Yes Art London, Art Fair - London
● 2024 - UCLH - ‘Down the path’, Group show, London
● 2022 - Act One, part one, Group show , Noho gallery, London
● 2022 - Act One, part two, Group show, 99 projects, London
● 2021 - ‘In the Flesh’ Partnership editions, Group Show, London
● 2020 -‘Supernature’- The Garden Museum, group show, London
● 2020 - ‘It’s still light outside’ solo show , Anthropologie, London
● 2019 -‘ In the Gallery’ group show, Anthropologie, London
● 2018 - ‘Secret Charter’, group show Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
● 2018 - The Edition Gallery, online
● 2018 - Bankside Gallery , watercolours group show
● 2017- Flowers Garden, solo show , Liberty London
● 2017 - ATC group show, London design week
● 2016 - Bloom, solo show, Hatch, London
● 2015 - Bowery Gallery - ‘personal reflections, group show, Leeds
● 2014 - Petrie Museum - group show , UCL London
Collections — Public Commissions
● UCLH - outpatients department -2024 UCLH Charity Commission
Public Commission for reception and out patients clinics , out patients
department of 13 original pieces of art. To create a hopeful and calming
environment for patients and staff.
● St Mary’s Hospital London mental health unit- ‘The Lighthouse’
Imperial Arts Charity Designed and created a full unit of - 6
patient rooms, reception, hallway and staff room 2023 12 original pieces
of art and vinyl installations. To create a calming hopeful environment
for service users and staff
Awards —
Winner of 2019 Emerging Artist Award - for Partnership editions x artist residence
Community & Educational Workshops
2025 - primary school - Painting the garden - group session , individual pieces and group work
2023 - workshop St John’s school landscape and abstraction
2022 - hospital rooms online workshop
2021 - online workshop for primary schools
2020 Garden Museum - abstracting the garden
2018-2020 - primary school After school workshops
2019-2020 - Hackney arts - workshop provider - charities,
2018 - 2020 - adult studio workshops
2018 community workshop - Smithfield garden festival
2013 Great Ormond Street Hospital workshops
Artist Statement
Laura Gee is an artist based in Walthamstow, London. She creates nature inspired
paintings & drawings, inspired by slowing down to small moments in nature and
elevating simple moments in everyday life. Her semi abstract, joyful and
colourful work has been collected in private and public collections.
The intention behind her art is to help alleviate anxiety and enhance
well-being. Laura’s work has strong links to mental health and public service,
as she has been commissioned by Hospital Rooms ( online workshop), St Mary’s
hospital mental health unit installation and UCLH hospital out patients
department, inspiring service users and staff to feel calmer and hopeful.
Laura has created and taught workshops in schools, nurseries, hospitals,
charities and companies, with the message that art & nature can help alleviate
anxiety and be a mindful practice of self expression, and enhance well-being.
Contact
To get in touch email at hello@lauragee.co.uk.
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