Artist
Laurie Maun
Laurie Maun is an artist and textile designer based in Manchester. Although Laurie’s core study is textiles, she is a multi-disciplinary artist, spanning painting, drawing and printmaking. Her work explores and responds to the relationship between texture, colour and shape mostly based on abstract form but also sometimes observational, figurative matter.
After gaining a BA in Textile Design from Manchester Art School, Laurie moved to London in 2014 to train in couture embroidery. In 2015 Laurie founded her own interiors company, producing hand-embroidered items for the home and limited edition prints. The following year Laurie was featured by The Barbican Museum in ‘The Barbican Maker’ which focused on promoting the works of an up-and-coming maker based in London. It was after this stepping-stone in her career that Laurie rediscovered her love for painting.
Laurie's Style
Laurie describes her paintings as a play on contact, conversation and perception. Her work is strongly focused on how colours meet and interact with one another, with her combination of luminous yet muted tones that make up Laurie’s very distinctive palette. The shapes that exist in each painting are informed by nature. Her bold organic forms are abstracted from every-day objects and shadows, formed in the evening light, helping Laurie bring her works to life.
‘Summer Moments’ is Laurie's fist collection for Partnership Editions. Painted during the beginnings of the Covid-19 lockdown, each piece is a reflection of summer memories, days filled with colour and warmth and long hazy evenings. A hopeful anticipation for the months to come.
