Prepared for Olivia Gonzales & Britt Design Group

A Private Portfolio

Amalfi Coast

48×60 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Created using handmade paints with pigments sourced from Venice, Italy
Each square in Amalfi Coast is carefully measured and placed by hand. It’s a slow, methodical process that balances the looseness of the clouded gradients behind it. That’s the tension I’m always looking for: structure and softness, order and atmosphere.

This piece is part of an ongoing exploration of place, memory, and geometry. I want the colors to feel like a breath: warm stone, salt air, that soft light you only find on certain coastlines.
$6,200

Cielito Lindo

48×60 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Created using handmade paints with pigments sourced from Venice, Italy
Cielito Lindo is a sweeping meditation on light, legacy, and longing. Inspired by the beloved Mexican folk song, this large-scale painting features three vertical windows floating over a sky filled with diffused blues, mauves, and soft golds. The composition honors three generations of artists in Laura Clay’s family—an intergenerational lineage of creativity, expression, and cultural memory.
Each pale window moves from ivory to mist, quietly echoing the passage of time and shared vision across generations. The surrounding atmosphere shifts in hue like early morning light rising over a quiet landscape. Clay’s brushwork suggests reverence, nostalgia, and presence without anchoring itself to any single place.
A statement piece that feels both luminous and deeply personal, Cielito Lindo invites viewers to reflect on where they come from and who they carry with them.
$6,200

Curated Focal Points

The medium-scale works offer a profound versatility. They are substantial enough to hold a wall on their own as a focal point in a smaller room, yet they also integrate beautifully into a larger gallery wall. These pieces are conversation starters, bringing a concentrated dose of color, texture, and story to a specific zone within a larger design scheme.

Via Roncato

Windows of the World

An atlas of memory, examining how the places we call home and the places we travel through ultimately shape our identity. Each piece is a meditation on the balance between rootedness and transition, created with handmade paints from pigments sourced from my travels, allowing each canvas to hold the tangible history and atmosphere of its origin.

The Narrative Centerpiece

The large-scale works are intended as anchor pieces, designed to command a room and establish its core narrative. Their immersive size allows the subtle gradients and textural details to create a truly atmospheric environment. These are statement paintings that serve as the foundational story for a sophisticated interior.

Surry Hills

30×40 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Created using handmade paints with pigments sourced from Sydney, Australia
Soft and painterly, Surry Hills is a clouded memory turned visual. The piece centers a single silver-toned window surrounded by layers of blush, sky blue, slate, and stone. The atmosphere hums with the warmth and energy of an inner-city neighborhood soaked in late afternoon light.
Laura Clay’s brushwork moves gently but deliberately, allowing organic forms to emerge from the surface while the window remains quiet and solid. The composition feels like looking through a fogged pane into a vivid past.
Elegant and emotive, Surry Hills captures the hush of reflection within the buzz of place.
$3,200

A study in warmth and light.

Dominated by hues of golden ochre and sun-drenched yellow, these paintings are designed to capture the feeling of a specific moment—the first light of a quiet sunrise in Burano, or the hazy afternoon sun on the Gold Coast. For an interior, these pieces act as a source of perpetual sunlight, creating a focal point that radiates warmth and invites conversation. They are versatile statements, perfect for bringing a concentrated dose of story and luminosity to a room.

20×20 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Created using handmade paints with pigments sourced from Venice, Italy
A quiet memory of an Italian afternoon, distilled into color and form. The painting captures the feeling of warm light filtering down a narrow street, the soft, earthy tones of ancient plaster, and a sky of hazy, quiet blue. This piece is less about a specific view and more about a sensory impression—the stillness of the air, the gentle texture of a sun-bleached wall. It is a testament to how even the simplest moments of travel can leave a lasting and beautiful imprint on our memory.
$1,350.00

Gold Coast

Burano

20×20 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Created using handmade paints with pigments sourced from Sydney, Australia
This painting is a meditation on the unique duality of the Gold Coast, where the wild, organic rhythm of the ocean meets the clean, geometric lines of the skyline. The composition holds this balance in quiet tension—soft, atmospheric layers of color evoke the sea and sand, while a structured central form suggests a window looking out from a high-rise. Created with handmade pigments sourced from my time in Australia, this piece is an abstract memory of that beautiful contrast, a testament to how a single place can hold both natural grandeur and modern structure in perfect harmony.
1,350.00

24×30 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Created using handmade paints with pigments sourced from Venice, Italy
Burano is rich with contrast and quietude. Named after the colorful island near Venice, the piece balances golden ochre and cornflower blue in a seamless gradient. A soft, hazy square at center appears as if it were cut from the sky and gently embedded into its frame.
The outer edges pulse with warmth, while the inner clouds feel distant and slow-moving. There is a sacred stillness in the form, like the hush of a small town at sunrise. Laura Clay’s treatment of light and shape gives the work both softness and formality.
Burano is a contemplative window into subtle color play and the poetry of still air.
$2,050

Intimate Moments

These small 8x10 inch paintings are intimate, jewel-box pieces. They are designed to create a personal moment of connection in more secluded spaces—a reading nook, a bookshelf, or a hallway. Each one acts as a small portal into a memory or a feeling, offering a concentrated, precious dose of story and material that invites the viewer to come closer. Created with handmade pigments sourced from Italy and Australia, these intimate works are offered at $450 each.

The Paintings: These works are created on raw, unprimed linen, providing an earthy and honest space for the figure to exist. The backgrounds are left bare to emphasize the material itself, suggesting our identities are grounded in something elemental and real. I use my own handmade oil paints with pigments sourced from my travels, including cochineal that I harvest from nopal cacti in my studio in Guanajuato, Mexico, and grind by hand to create the rich red pigment used for centuries by Zapotec and Mixtec cultures.

The Ceramics: This physical presence is a direct mirror of the series' core theme. Just as these vessels inhabit a physical room, the Compartment series is an inquiry into the conceptual rooms we inhabit within ourselves. Each piece is a meditation on the "architecture of the self," proposing that our identity is a sanctuary of interconnected spaces, made more beautiful by its unique history and imperfections. They are objects that do more than furnish a space; they create a dialogue about the very nature of the spaces we hold within.

Coming this Fall:

The Compartment Series

This new body of work is an inquiry into the architecture of the self. It proposes that identity is not a single room, but a sanctuary of interconnected spaces—each holding a different memory, culture, and material history. This work is a meditation on how these distinct facets coexist, creating a layered and harmonious whole that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

The Concept

The Compartment series is a multi-medium exploration into the spaces we inhabit—between cultures, memories, and materials.

Creating a bridge between mediums is a direct reflection of creating a bridge between cultures. It is a way to hold multiple languages at once—the precise line of a drawing, the fluid gesture of a painting, and the grounded presence of a ceramic object.

A core philosophy of the series is inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where brokenness is honored, not hidden. It embraces what Laura Clay calls Beauty Marks — unique variations and imperfections that arise during the creative process, proposing that we are made more beautiful by our complexities, not in spite of them.

While the initial studies below offer an intimate view, they are the conceptual genesis for future large-scale works. These forthcoming paintings, ranging from 36x48 to 48x60 inches and beyond, are envisioned as foundational, anchor pieces designed to command a space and create a truly immersive dialogue.

Materiality

The series intentionally bridges Laura Clay’s established practices in painting and drawing with a new exploration into sculpture and three-dimensional form, allowing a single theme to be translated across different material languages. The story is in the raw materials; each piece is a meditation on materiality and the histories we hold.

The Drawings: These serve as the architectural blueprint for the series. Created with the precision of archival inks and architectural pens, they distill the core theme into its most essential form: the line. The meticulous linework stands in direct contrast to the fluid, organic shape of the figure itself—a visual representation of the tension between structure and the self. Each piece is a meditation on the line itself—its ability to define a boundary, and the self's refusal to be contained by it. For a curated space, these drawings offer a sense of quiet intellect and sophisticated restraint, grounding a room in the foundational story.

Behind the Scenes

A piece of art is a story told through material. This is a glimpse into that dialogue—the meticulous process of translating an idea from the precision of a line, to the texture of handmade paint, to the form of hand-thrown clay.