
Surry Hills
30 x 40 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Windows of the World Collection
Certificate of Authenticity and Floater Frame Included | Signed by the Artist
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.
Surry Hills
30 x 40 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
Windows of the World Collection
Certificate of Authenticity and Floater Frame Included | Signed by the Artist
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.
Windows of the World explores memory and the destinations that shape identity. Each painting reflects Laura Clay’s experiences traveling across cultures, capturing the balance between rootedness and transition. Inspired by her travels to places like Mexico, Italy, and Spain, Clay incorporates locally sourced pigments and natural materials, allowing each piece to embody the essence of its origin. As the series expands, new works will be titled after the locations where these materials were gathered, deepening the connection between place, and memory and exploring how travel transforms identity.
Surry Hills was created using the last of her grandmother’s paints alongside pigments sourced from Sydney, Australia.