Laura Craig lives and works in London, finding inspiration for her landscape painting and printmaking along the North Norfolk coast where her family originate, the Witterings on the south coast, London parks and the rural Home Counties where she spent her childhood. Adding Italy to the list because of the Italian family she married into.
Laura has a diverse background in design and fine art. Being from a design family, her father is the film designer Stuart Craig, he nurtured her design potential from a young age and still today offers her direction and critique. Laura began her career in textile design and working in his art departments.
Laura holds a Master of Arts from Central Saint Martins specialising in printed textiles and has completed commissioned work for Liberty, Mulberry, V&A, The British Museum, English Heritage and Kensington Palace amongst other established brands. She designed ceramics and textiles for Wedgwood and recently joined the Royal Mint’s portfolio of designers.
Her most recent works are landscape oil paintings and drawings exploring the atmosphere and weightiness of the skies over the sea and rural landscapes. She first captures the subject with detailed drawings and then either takes the rendition into the print room to develop into monoprints and etchings or begins a series of oil paintings.
Her oil paintings and original prints are figurative and sometimes more abstract as she experiments with colour and movement.
Laura is cultivating her own fascination for the drama of a vast landscape and our weather. The sky is a beautiful place to get lost in.