Laura Ritchie
Painter
Laura Ritchie is a qualified Graphic Designer but during the notorious Lockdowns in 2020, she found the love of painting and decided to pursue a career as a full time artist.
For the past six years, Laura has painted prolifically and with growing recognition. A committed plein air painter, she gets outside as often as time allows, painting with the Surrey Hills Plein Air Painters, and draws equally from life, whether at regular life drawing sessions or in her own garden, where she gathers flowers for still life arrangements. Her work has been exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2024 exhibition, the Green and Stone Summer Exhibition in 2025, and both the Society of Women Artists and the Chelsea Art Society in 2026. In December 2024, she won a portrait competition with the ROI Friends at the Mall Galleries.
Light and shadow are at the heart of everything Laura paints. She is drawn to the relationships between people and place, the small human moments that play out on an ordinary street every day, unseen by most. Laura is represented by Nadia Fine Art Gallery in Hampshire and Artsy Corner Gallery in Wimbledon.