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Laura Smith is a painter living and working in London. She is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art and attended The New York Academy.

In 2004 she spent a year at The Prince's Drawing School where she won The Richard Ford Award to live and paint in Madrid.

Portrait commissions include: The Blessing of the Marriage of The Prince of Wales to The Duchess of Cornwall, Clive James, Sir Peter North QC (Vice Chancellor of Oxford University 1993 - 1997), Michael Hintze (funder of the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Sculpture Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum), His Honour Judge Hornby and the composer Paul Gladstone Reid MBE

Clive James describes Laura's work on his web site www.clivejames.com: "...There is a security of form to her painting of figures that provides a firm base for the natural sensuality of her textures and colours, the latter having an almost Fauve-like freedom which makes me wonder if any other girls with green skin ever looked quite so disarmingly lovely as some of her models. One of her models, I can proudly reveal, was myself. I was the subject of her “Portrait of Man Writing” just as she was the subject of my poem with the same title ... I find it truly encouraging that a painter so young should be so determined to study the human form with such analytical intensity, and enshrine the results with such lyrical grace. There is an unashamed joy to the people in her pictures, as if they had found the secret of relaxation. But she works very hard to put them at their ease, and without her scrupulous draughtsmanship none of these casual visual melodies would have been possible".