Art by Laura Targett

Originals • Commissions • Prints

Laura Targett is a NSW-based visual artist whose work is as vibrant and eclectic as the region she calls home. A fourth-generation artist, Laura has quietly painted alongside her more widely recognised career as a musician and has been known to occasionally confuse her bow with her paint brush and attempt to paint a sound, or play a colour!

The Art Itself

Laura’s paintings are rich with feeling, luminous, layered and full of life. Using a self-developed variation of the veil painting technique, she creates depth through translucent washes, building imagery that shimmers with intuition, emotion and movement.

Her practice explores the interconnectedness of life - each brushstroke a meditation on what’s seen and unseen, vibrant and subtle, human and more-than-human.

These aren’t just visual compositions, but living experiences in colour: vulnerable, emergent, and resonant with the pulse of the natural world.

Whether in watercolour or oil on canvas, her work speaks to something elemental. Colour becomes emotion. Form becomes story. Her art becomes a metaphor for the art of being.

Unique Techniques

Laura has developed the veil painting technique to apply it to oil-on-canvas works, exploring the interconnectedness of life through a richly layered and iridescent visual language.

She builds depth through translucent layers, creating luminous images that invite the viewer into a world of colour and feeling.

In both solo exhibitions and collaborative projects, Laura’s work resonates with a unique aliveness, inviting viewers into a contemplative space where colour, complexity and consciousness dance.

Creative Works

Laura has exhibited her art both in the UK and here in Australia.

Laura's watercolour piece Improvisation won second prize at Ocean Shore's 2012 art expo, showcasing her distinctive veil painting technique - a method that layers translucent washes to evoke depth and emotion.

Beyond the canvas, she has painted album covers, murals, printed gift cards, and is currently working on illustrating a children's book and installing a mosaic.

Creative Process

Laura’s creative process is guided by a deeply felt sentience, a reverence for the unseen forces of nature, the vitality in all living things. Her paintings are not merely visual compositions, but living experiences in colour, where hue and form are shaped by intuition and an attunement to the evolving essence of the human spirit.

Her art becomes a metaphor for the art of being: layered, emergent, vulnerable, and full of life.

Commisions

Laura is available for commissions - mediums include oil on canvas, pen or pencil drawings, oil or chalk pastels, watercolour, mosaics or murals.

Whether you’re after a personalised painting, a unique gift, album artwork, or something that captures a particular energy, moment or memory.

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Prints, greeting cards and digital downloads


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