Lara Davies works across figuration and abstraction to explore the interplay between place, memory, and personal history. Her most recent body of work was made in response to a journey the artist took in the summer of 2023, in which she traced the length of the UK on her bicycle travelling from Land’s End in Cornwall to John o’Groats in Scotland. The artist’s more abstract paintings are inspired by visual aspects of her domestic environment. Faded wallpaper, curtains and carpets are reinterpreted in oil paint to create subtle artworks imbued with a comforting sense of nostalgia.

Davies graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2022. Her work is held in the collections of the Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW), UK as well as several private collections in the UK, USA and France. She has exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery. London; Canopy Collections, London; Alma Pearl, London; The Walker Museum, Liverpool (The John Moores Painting Prize).