Laura Scheringa

Born in Geleen (the Netherlands), in 1986, moved to Amsterdam in 2008, currently living and working in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Looking from space into earth, I capture landscape on paper and canvas and travel across the (digital) world. By zooming out, alienation takes place, which creates the question of what is abstract and figurative, which freedom I can claim when filling the landscape within the given frameworks such as water and land. The makeability (the intervention of man on nature) of the landscape versus the natural landscape and my interpretation of it, is an interesting search, of form and color, material and composition.
The tension between the disappearance of nature and the preservation of the cultural landscape, in which changes take place through interaction of man, degradation and construction, for example urbanization, or the time-consuming meandering of a river or sedimentation of its surroundings, I observe and capture.

Graduated in 2008 at Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht (Academy of fine Arts Maastricht), bachelor in Education and Design.
Graduated in 2011 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, bachelor in Fine Arts.

Current: exhibiting/represented at OODE gallery Amsterdam The Netherlands.
Represented by ART[s] Gallery Franchise Noordwijk and Gassel, The Netherlands.
past exhibitions in and around Amsterdam:
Melkweg Expo Amsterdam
WG Kunst Amsterdam
Museum Waterland Purmerend.