Laura Fishman

About Laura

Since my early devotion to painting, I’ve been motivated by a love of nature and a fascination with paint as a material. My paintings feature colour, texture and movement, using techniques to create surfaces that are reminiscent of dynamic patterns and flow in nature. I gravitate toward the abstract in art because it allows me the freedom to interpret the world I see through my own creative lens.


My Work

Laura earned her BFA in Painting in her native United States from the State University of New York at New Paltz. It was here she studied with abstract expressionist Joop Sanders, friend and apprentice of Willem de Kooning, and the founder of the American Abstract Expressionism group. She also studied with Hudson Valley landscape artist Alex Martin, where her love of landscape painting was nurtured. The influence of her education can be seen throughout her works, with her use of bold colour and intuitive style.
She continued her studies earning an AAS degree in Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and earned her MA Fine Art at Middlesex University, London. She remains active with artist communities, exhibitions and associations in the United Kingdom, Europe and in the United States. Laura currently lives and works in London, is a GOLDEN Art Materials Educator and is Art Curator at Stephens House & Gardens, Finchley.

Laura's work can be found in private and corporate collections in the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and the Middle East.
Corporate collections include: The Miles Partnership, UK, and The Lint Group, UK.

Laura is happy to discuss commissions to create works that suit specific requirements for your home or corporate interiors.
Laura will be selling her work at 9 Windermere Ave, Finchley, at the  EFO Open Houses 2022

Exhibitions

Artist Residencies, Solo Exhibitions & Achievements

  • 2021 - 'FREE_FLOW' Solo Exhibition at Hampstead Garden Gallery
  • 2018 - 'Infinite Possibilities' Solo Exhibition at 508 Kings Road Gallery
  • 2017 - Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Competition, Heat 6
  • 2015 - Stephens House & Gardens, Residency & Solo Exhibition, London.
  • 2013 - 'High Viscosity' Residency & Solo Exhibition, DegreeArt, London.
  • 2012 - 'Blue Grey' Solo Exhibition. The Outside World, Shoreditch, London.
  • 2012 - Signature Art Prize Finalist
  • 2010 - Cass Art Prize Finalist

Exhibitions:

  • 2022 - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea - London
  • 2022 -'Winter' - Group Exhibition, Kingsgate Project Space, London
  • 2022 - 'Wild & Wonderful - Group exhibition, Bobcat Gallery at 508 Kings Road, Chelsea, London
  • 2022 - 'Waterways' - Group exhibition, Bobcat Gallery at WWT London Wetland Centre, Barnes, London
  • 2021 - 'Verdant - Nature & Effect' ArtCan Virtual Group Exhibition
  • 2021 - 'Northern Line' - Group Exhibition, Highgate Gallery (HLSI Institute) Highgate, London..
  • 2021 - Affordable Art Fair, Battersea - Battersea Evolution, London 20 - 24 October. Stand K4
  • 2021 - 'Crossing the Liminal' - Hampstead Garden Gallery, London
  • 2021 - 'Inspire' - D-Contemporary Gallery, Mayfair, London
  • 2020 - Kensington + Chelsea Art Trail Select Gallery, Notting Hill, London
  • 2020 - 'From ArtCan with Love' Postcard Fundraiser Virtual Exhibition
  • 2020 Virtual Exhibition 'Transient' ArtCan Collective
  • 2020 - Group Exhibition #FakeNews - ArtCan Org Offshoot Gallery, London
  • ​2016 - 2020 - Affordable Art Fairs, Hampstead & Battersea
  • 2019 - 2020 - 'Elevate '02 at the Shard, London
  • 2019 - Society of Women Artists 157th Annual Exhibition, Mal Galleries, London.
  • 2019 - The Auction Collective X DegreeArt, Bankside Hotel, London
  • 2019 - 'Curated', Amar Gallery, London
  • 2018 - East Finchley Open Artists - Open House & Studio
  • 2018 - 'Arboretum', Stephens House & Gardens, Finchley
  • 2017 - 'Origins', 508 Kings Road Gallery, Chelsea, London
  • 2017 - 'Reflections', EFO Artists. Ply Gallery, Crouch End.
  • 2017 - Buy Art Fair, Manchester Central Convention Complex
  • 2017 - 'Curious Duke Gallery', Summer Show. Whitecross Street, London
  • 2017 - 'Complete Abstraction', 508 Kings Road Gallery, Chelsea, London
  • 2017 - The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Southhampton Row, London.
  • 2017 - Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh.
  • 2017 - 'Regeneration', Stephens House & Gardens, Finchley.
  • 2017 - 'Colour & Form', Burgh House, 28-40 New End Square, Hampstead.
  • 2016 - 'Breaking Boundaries', EFO Artists, The Original Gallery, London.
  • 2016 - Group Show, Hille and Zotova Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 2016 - Group Exhibition - Clerkenwell Gallery, London.
  • 2015 - Square Foot Art Basel Miami Three' Projects Gallery, Miami, Fl. USA
  • 2015 - 'Rhythm & Blues' - Original Gallery, Crouch End, London
  • 2014 - 15 - Vout-O-Reenee's Group Show - The Stash Gallery, East London
  • 2014 - 'Splashes, Wisps and Fragments' - Original Gallery, London
  • 2014 - 'SEAMS' - Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
  • 2014 - Verve Open - Chelsea, London
  • 2014 - ‘Sunless’ - Bermondsey Project Space, London
  • 2013 - 'THIS YEAR'S MODEL', Studio1.1, - Shoreditch, London
  • 2012 - 2015 Artsdepot Open, Apthorp Gallery, London
  • 2012 - 'PLATE', Herrick Gallery, - Shoreditch, London

Other Artists

Cape Cornwall Sunset (Top)

David Gilbert

My sculptural work is figurative, expressing movement and emotional energy; I am also a colourful painter and printmaker.

View Profile
Spring Morning

Diana Stoker

Diana creates collage pictures using pastels and painted papers as well as making bead necklaces and printed textiles.

View Profile
Linda working on one of her soft sculptures

Linda Freedman

I have just joined the EFOA group. I am an artist working in East Finchley. I'm also a member of HGS Artists, having previously lived in HGS.

View Profile
Archnote business card

Nadia Savvopoulou

Nadia Savvopoulou – aka Archnote – is a professional photographer, a RIBA Chartered Architect, and a digital designer.

View Profile
Scaffolding, Fez

Christine Watson

Christine's paintings, pastels and prints are inspired by the architecture of towns, villages and cities of the Mediterranean

View Profile
Emerging I

Penny Elder

Penny Elder is a painter and printmaker of colourful abstract and semi-abstract images, often of imagined landscapes.

View Profile
Tiger Tiger

Theresa Kennedy

Theresa Kennedy is a oil/acrylic painter, and enjoys photography

View Profile
Winter sunset

Maria Hajdic

Artist with a passion for animals, nature and occasionally portraits.

View Profile
lauri santillan damaged goods

Lauri Santillan

Lauri is a visual artist working in painting, drawing and illustration, with a special interest in the artistic process as a way of thinking..

View Profile
IMG_3328 Brief Encounters

David Lee

DAVID LEE Painting explore texture, colour and form creating an emotional landscape connecting with the viewer’s inner world.

View Profile