Susan Laughton’s long standing interest in landscape and architecture has always inspired her painting and drawing. Vernacular buildings, both rural and urban, domestic and functional are a source of geometric, architectural forms. More recently pieces of broken ceramics found in the fields near home on the edge of the Potteries in Staffordshire have brought a different scale of reference. A reductive approach to these sources is used to select and refine the intentional placement of linear and spatial elements. These are set against the more random physicality of different surfaces whether they are hand applied plaster or the grain of plywood that connect back to the built environment.
Laughton worked in architecture for twelve years before returning to education to study art graduating with a BA Hons in 2002. She currently works from Vale Artists Studios in Cheshire.