Laura Catherwood

Chicago, Illinois

Laura Catherwood is a Chicago-based painter focused on delicately emotive illustration of plants, animals, and quiet creatures. The sense of an intimate, mysterious narrative in her work invites contemplation and extends empathy to the viewer. With soft textures and sensitive gestures, she diagrams our ambiguous feelings toward the natural order of things, including painful or melancholy moments that seem outside of understanding.

Past Lam-juried exhibition: Line Dot Editions’ Open Call Group Show (2019)

10th Anniversary Message:

I hope to learn as much in the next ten years as I have in the last.

Larkspur - Let it Break

2020, oil on aluminum composite panel, 9 x 12 in. (23 x 30 cm.)

Bleeding Heart - Tenderness

2020, oil on aluminum composite panel, 9 x 12 in. (23 x 30 cm.)

Dogbane - Exposure Therapy

2020, oil on aluminum composite panel, 9 x 12 in. (23 x 30 cm.)

The Point (I)

2021, oil on panel, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.)

The Point (II)

2021, oil on panel, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.)