Laura Bird
Resillience
feat. the artwork of local artist
march 01 - may 29
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.
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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
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
Soulmates #1
Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 11 x 13 in. | $400
Soulmates #2
Pen & Ink, Watercolour, Gold Pigment | 11 x 13 in. | $400
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
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
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
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
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