Lauras current art practice is focused on Australian landscapes and portraiture, exploring themes of connection to place and the healing aspects of spending time immersed in the natural world. Her most recent landscapes of the region in which she lives, are focused on a certain mood and emotional connection created by featuring recognisable landmarks with a warmth of colour and vast cloud filled skies. The process of painting the landscapes allows the artist to revisit the joy and serenity induced by being immersed both in the landscape and in the painting process. Not one to keep all her eggs in one basket, and with a background in figurative life drawing, Laura finds bouncing back to creating explorative portraits has helped to keep her creative brain stimulated and fresh as she experiments with different ways to portray the human face. Her style includes realism, hyper realism and deconstructed realism. Laura has been a finalist in several art prizes, recently winning first place in the Ludlow Art Prize for Australian Landscape Painting.