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Laura Bird

Resilliance

feat. the artwork of local artist

feb00 - may00

satelite exhibition at the

Durham Medical Center

a creative collaboration between

the Durham Hospital Foundation

and the Durham Art Gallery

Resilience is a contemplative exhibition by Laura Bird that presents a series of work developed through slow, intuitive mark-making. Created during and following the global pandemic, the pieces explore endurance, continuity, and quiet strength.Recurring motifs — a lotus flower, winding pathway, falling droplets, and a single eye — form a shared visual language of continuity and renewal, encouraging slow looking and emotional grounding. Subtle passages of watercolour and restrained gold pigment introduce quiet luminosity, activating the surface while preserving the integrity of the drawing. Resilience offers a counterpoint to urgency and spectacle, presenting resilience as something built slowly — through patience, awareness, and the act of returning, mark by mark.

Laura Bird is a multidisciplinary artist working across pen and ink pointillism, watercolour, acrylic painting, figure drawing and mixed media abstraction. Her practice is defined by repetition, layered mark-making, and an intuitive approach to process, allowing time to shape perception and meaning. Informed by a background in graphic and exhibition design, alongside a parallel career as a singer-songwriter, her work demonstrates a refined sense of rhythm, restraint and compositional clarity.

Exhibited Artwork

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Intuition

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 10 x 10 in. | $375

Collaboration

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 10 x 10 in. | $375

Endurance

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 10 x 10 in. | $375

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Soulmates #1

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 11 x 13 in. | $400

Soulmates #2

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 11 x 13 in. | $400

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Starlit Serenade 

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Going up

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Starburst

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Safe Harbour

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Here Comes the Sun

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Hide and Seek

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Who me?

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225
Reflections of You

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Let's Snuggle

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

You've got a friend

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Carry On

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

Love Burst

Pen & Ink | 9.25 x 9.25 in. | $225

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Equilibrium

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

Resilience

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

Release and Renewal

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

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Watch me thrive 

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 11 x 8 in. | $325

First Wave

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 11 x 8 in. | $325

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Jubilation

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

I've got you covered

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

Global Spin

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

Reciprocity

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275

Sustenance

Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 8 x 9 in. | $275​

if you are interested in purchasing any of the works, please contact Laura Bird via email

wigboroughmusic@gmail.com

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The Fallis Family

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