Lara Voce

Lara's work is composed of abstracted still life scenes , presented in an elegant and playful fashion. Seemingly simple, but full of complexity of feeling. Lara’s work makes the ordinary extraordinary and the simple sing.

Lara explores everyday, familiar objects, simplifying their forms and exploring texture through her application and layering of paint. 

There is a luminosity to the painted surface, which is achieved through the layering, sanding back and reapplication of the paint, leaving hints of the surface below and often ghosts of previous compositions.  

Lara works from memory which explains the naïve character of the objects.  She explores the composition through repetitive simplified line drawings.  When the composition ‘works’, she develops this into a painting, however this often changes as she works through the layers of paint.   

She works exclusively in acrylic which aids the immediacy of the painting process.

Lara worked in design at Aston Martin  before leaving to pursue her career as an artist full time.

Lara’s collection spans a range of works from small minimalist monochrome paintings  to larger works on wooden panels.