I meet Laura Lowe in her studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, to look at her very large paintings of gloomy yet shiny, abstract landscapes. We discuss when a painting is dead or alive, the decay and resurrection of landscape painting in the era of climate change, and Laura tells how she went from self-taught artist to alchemist in the paint lab. She describes the technical process of working with structural colour (and what that even is), the difference to painting and sculpting a picture, and she tells about her long experimental process of creating iridescent paint and working with light-reflection. We talk about the practical aspects of scaling up and working from tiny samples to large canvases, and how the exhibition space affects the artwork. Laura also explains how to turn roadkill into taxidermy sculptures, and we talk a bit about coal.
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