Edward Laurie

Ed Laurie is a London based, self-taught painter and musician. He started designing artwork for concert flyers and album covers alongside experimenting as a painter. Predominantly interested in Impressionist, Post Impressionist, Expressionist & Figurative painters such Cézanne, Van Gogh, Milton Avery, Nicolas de Staël he learnt by looking hard at their work and going to galleries to get as close to the paintings as possible: “... to see the illusion and simultaneously what makes the illusion”

After developing more of a painter’s sensibility and moving away from what he found easiest – caricature type figures – he began working as much from life as he did imagination. “I started the painting in my head and would finish by finding something in life - a model, or a landscape or an image that best fit what I had imagined.”

Subsequently a gallerist who had seen some of his early work offered to exhibit and since then, especially over the last three years, he has been also selling and exhibiting privately from his North London studio/flat, as well as other galleries.

As A Musician

“An artist of rare and exceptional talent’’ -
Nigel Williamson, The Guardian

For two decades Ed Laurie has toured Europe both as a solo artist and with...

Self-taught Painter, Musician.

Most recent
WWW Gallery April - June 2022
99 Projects February - March 2023
Smiths Gallery July - August 2023