Lara Cobden

Biography

Lara Cobden is a figurative painter living and working in Norfolk. Following a degree in Painting at the University of Brighton, Lara spent 11 years in Ireland before relocating to East Anglia. Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally.



'Focusing on memory and sense of place, the paintings are a subjective and individual response to the natural world around me, seeing the fantastical and magical in nature.
I hope there is both a stillness and fluidity in my work; in the ordinary - a sense of reverence.
Paintings evolved from remembered landscapes and casual snapshots, shimmer and shift in and out of focus, both misty and precise. This balance is also contained within the composition of a painting; presence and absence.

The thread pulling this work together is about 'coming home', belonging; or conversely a sense of ' unbelonging'. '

1992-1995 Brighton University Sussex England BA Hons Fine Art

2019 The Arborealists Art of the Tree National Memorial Arboretum Staffordshire December 2019- March 2020
2019 ING Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries London
2019 Westmorland Landscape Prize Rheged Centre Penrith Cumbria
2019 'If we opened people up we'd find landscapes' (Agnés Varda): 4 June - 27 July Fairhurst Gallery Norfolk
2019 The Arborealists and Guests: The Young Gallery Sailsbury
2019 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize - Mall Galleries London
2018 Wells Art Contemporary Awards Exhibition Somerset
2018 Arborealists – Mariners Gallery St Ives Cornwall
2018 The Art of the Tree by the Arborealists-East - Flatford Mill Suffolk
2018 Arborealists and Guests – featuring Paul Nash - Black Swan Gallery Frome Somerset
2018 Sir John Hurt Art Prize - Holt Norfolk
2018 The Arborealists: Art of the Tree - The John Davies Gallery - Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire
2018 Fairground - Fairhurst Gallery Norwich
2017 ING Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries London
2017 RWA 165 Annual Open Exhibition - Royal West if England Academy Bristol
2017​​ SWA Annual Summer Exhibition - Mall Galleries London
2016​ ​ING Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries London
2016​​ Holt Festival Art Prize - Holt Norfolk
2016​​ SWA Annual Summer Exhibition - Mall Galle...