Laura Burke is a Brooklyn-based painter whose work explores memory, emotion, and the quiet symbolism of everyday life. Her vibrant still lifes and interior scenes are not painted from direct observation, but from recollection and emotional association. Drawing inspiration from daily rituals, Burke gathers visual fragments, flowers, ceramics, textiles, books, and arranges them into carefully staged compositions that function like a private, intuitive language.

Drawing inspiration from daily rituals, Burke gathers visual fragments, flowers, ceramics, textiles, books, and arranges them into carefully staged compositions that function like a private, intuitive language.

Working in flattened space and saturated color, Burke creates imagined environments where objects interact symbolically. The absence of human figures invites viewers to inhabit the scene themselves, allowing each painting to feel intimate, personal, and slightly surreal. Her use of pattern and vivid palette heightens emotional intensity, suggesting the texture of memory itself, specific yet malleable, familiar yet dreamlike. Through this process, Burke captures the quiet poetry of ordinary moments, not as they are, but as they are remembered and reimagined.

Born in Oregon, Burke began her creative career in illustration, a background that continues to shape her narrative approach to painting. Her work has been exhibited widely across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, with shows in New York, Los Angeles, London, and Tokyo. Collected internationally, Burke’s paintings offer a deeply personal yet universal meditation on home, beauty, and the fleeting nature of what we choose to hold onto. Burke is currently living and working in Portland, Oregon and is represented by Chefas Projects.

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