Laura Marks, Artist

 

Hello and welcome to the 53rd 3 Art Questions With Jackson interview! This time I interviewed excellent London based painter Laura Marks. I discovered her work on Instagram and I love it, I'm not sure I've seen anyone doing what she does. I feel like we have something in common as I too like to like to try to do new variations with the same sized canvases. She's great and I think you will really enjoy her answers. Thank you for reading! (Instagram: @jlauramarks / All images courtesy of the artist)

Jackson: How did you end up being an artist, and a painter specifically? Were you always artistic or did you have an experience that sent you that way?

Laura: Its been a gradual process. I am interested in many different areas and having the privilege to express my creativity wasn't always on the cards, but over time I have managed to be able to devote more time to it. I believe we evolve constantly and being "creative" or "artistic" is a spectrum we're all on, just some of have the interest, privilege, and opportunity to expand on it more in different timers of our lives. 

Jackson: I'm fascinated by how you use similar sized canvases for most painting and cold wax and oil. Did you get there through trial and error or was this your thought process from the beginning?

Laura: I do work on a larger scale too but I love how a small canvas forces you to be more deliberate with your marks and teaches you to appreciate the finer detail, illustrating the paradox between my love for bold, energetic marks and the delicate, patient opposite. It teaches me a lot.  

Jackson: If you could meet any artist living or dead, who would it be and why?

Laura: Yayoi Kusama, I would be very interested to understand what she makes of the commercialization of (her) art at the moment, and how different this is from when she was younger and her work was understood and appreciated so differently. Apart from that there would be many, many artists that I find inspiring - John Chamberlin, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Dan Flavin, etc etc! And Egon Schiele!