Laura Wooten is a Charlottesville based landscape painter. Through a close observation of the natural world, with layers of memory and invention, she explores notions of time, place, rootedness, and reverie. She is engaged with painting the landscapes of her daily life: the fields of central Virginia, views to the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, the trees that mark the passing of time in her own backyard, and the immersive plants and flowers that spill from her garden beds and window ledge.

Laura earned her undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture at the University of Virginia and continued at UVA as an Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Studio Art before earning her MFA from American University. Her landscape paintings have been exhibited across the East Coast, including juried shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Biggs Museum of American Art in Dover, The Painting Center in NYC, and the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Boston. Laura has frequently exhibited in Charlottesville, including solo exhibitions at Chroma Projects and Second Street Gallery. Laura has served as a guest lecturer at UVA and enjoys teaching perceptual painting workshops.