A Love Letter To Everyday
Letter 2, July - A Love Letter to…. Coming Home
These works are inspired by seeds blooming, coming home, waiting and trusting.
This week is about coming home, and gardening, and blooming, how a mother tends to her garden, her family, the seeds we all plant physically and emotionally of dreams and hopes, and what we do in the in between, in the longing season the waiting season, having faith in that change will happen, and the joy of seeing something bloom.
I painted these in my childhood garden, the garden where I dreamt, where I grew up, I found paper from the 90’s, WHsmith - vintage and cream a lovely lightly textured 200gsm made to practise your writing on, and the watercolours sit so perfectly on this - my new form of writing - through paint.
Also this series is about the objects of everyday that give us familiarity, the washing up liquid, the same view from a window.
I hope your heart feels warm and love when you explore these pieces, and that they ‘come home’ to you.
Laura x
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explore the works from the first Love letter to Everyday here - Part 1 ‘A love letter to seven sisters’
About this ongoing project - A Love Letter To Everyday
Each week my studio practice changes, being a mother to a 3 year old and a 1 yr old, I have found in the last year and a half that i have been creating work that is deeply personal to me, but not finding the space to share it. Sometimes months go by and my work has moved subject. In 2020, In lock down, pre kids I created paintings that I then shared each Saturday, at the same time, they were of my garden of small pieces from the week, moments captured.
There is something very intimate and authentic about this process which suits me, and now being at home with my just turned 1 year old babe, I find myself in my home studio looking out onto a different garden from lockdown but a familiarity of the richness of everyday, and also the restrictions `- 5 years later my restriction is time I can work, which i am deeply thankful for being able to be present to my young children, but also carve out time to create, which at the moment is in my little ones nap times and a few hours at the weekend. Creativity thrives with constraints, restrtictions, innvation appears.
All in all this is to say the below will be an ongoing project, where I share works from the studio on a Sunday, I can’t guarantee it is every Sunday, but I will be sharing authentically and i hope this gives a real insight into the artist studio and creation.
The idea to start this again has been in my mind for about half a year - with the title - A love letter to everyday -
which in itself feels like an act of rebellion, to see joy and hope, even when you feel despair and the world feels scary. For this ongoing series there may be a range of works and at studio prices.
Laura , July 2025 x