All works are on wood panel and mixed media: collage (featuring etchings), wood-carving, pyrography and gouache. Dimensions vary from 5″ x 5″ to 12″ x 8″
Laura Bydlowska (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto/Tkaronto, specializing in printmaking, painting, and pyrography. Her abstract geological compositions often reveal hidden caverns, sediment layers, and bursts of colourful vegetation.
Laura’s work explores the natural world’s underside with spontaneity, combining various materials. She layers prints and uses heavy mark-making to obscure planes of colour or wood grain, refining her pieces with flat colour and line. Her compositions are influenced by cliffs, valleys, and coastal features, creating a harmonious blend of shapes and colours.
Rather than depicting specific landscapes, Laura’s works evoke the memory of organic forms and the possibility of place, inviting diverse interpretations.
EDUCATION
The University of Toronto, Master of Museum Studies, 2009 – 11
The University of Guelph, Bachelor of Arts, with Honours, 2004 – 08
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Visual Elements 66: Annual Juried Exhibition
Woodstock Art Gallery (WAG)
July 13 – Sept. 21, 2024
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Up from Below
Woodstock Art Gallery (WAG)
July 13 – September 14, 2019
Up From Below presents a series of recent works by Laura Bydlowska that challenge the idea of a landscape by exploring the underground linear movements that rise from beneath to form our natural world (text courtesy the WAG website).
Passage
Open Studio (OS)
May 17, 2019 – June 15, 2019
Passage continues Laura’s fascination with geologic cross-sections and the forming of imagined environments below the surface. Passage examines how strata intersect to create or limit access within a fictional landscape.
HAVE A QUESTION?
Email lbydlowska@gmail.com