About
Laura Crane is an Australian visual artist and designer painting and creating from her Toowoomba based studio, and in beautiful locations around the world.
She specialises in live-painting horses and events to capture the moment and mark elements that speak to her in line and colour.
Her passion is sharing the depth of experience beauty is for her through translating moments and developing original creative for individuals, corporate entities and designing large-scale wall murals and patterns for all to enjoy.
Laura has a long list of clients and projects across Australia and around the world.
She relishes fresh project possibilities and invites you to be in contact.
Laura Crane is an Australian horse and landscape artist, designer and conceptual creative. Trained as a graphic designer, with a background in brand development and painting for nineteen years, Laura now paints, designs and creates full-time from her home studio in Toowoomba and bases in Abu Dhabi and Poland.
Laura applies her creative across many different mediums on all aspects of creative projects to provide customised responses and solutions for both commercial and private projects and events.
In her heart, Laura is deeply moved by beauty and the power it carries to affect people in a positive way. She works lightly to capture those fleeting moments of peace, joy, freedom and delight and finds some of her purest work is created live-painting and en plein air where she can truly observe and experience the moment, and translate that sensation into imagery, as purely as possible.
Crane works with acrylics, watercolours, gouache and oils on paper, linen, canvas and poly cotton. She found her way to painting through sculpture, and looks forward to returning more regularly to the discipline when the time calls.
Laura’s work has been commissioned by Myer, the Victoria Race Club, Jumps Racing Australia, Urban Polo, Inglis, Equestrian Australia, Equestrian Queensland and she paints each Spring Carnival for the Waterhouse family. She has created custom wallpapers and murals and artworks for Rydges, Sofitel, Marriot, Melia and Park Hyatt hotels, has a signature wallpaper collection with architectural surfaces company Baresque, and recently completed a large collection of original artworks commissioned by hospitality visionary Ali Albwardy for his Melia Ngorongoro Crater Hotel, Tanzania.
Artist Residencies are favoured by Laura. Among her most memorable are Rowing Australia and The Cassidy Hotel Group ahead of the 2020 & 2024 Olympics, La Palmeraie Polo Club, Morocco, and Melia Arusha & Serengeti and Park Hyatt Zanzibar, Tanzania. She has worked on numerous place-making projects, the latest being illuminated panels and laser-cut arbours for Miles Street-scape in Queensland, Australia. Laura works continuously on privately commissioned works. She has shown in 25 solo and joint exhibitions, her artworks are held in private collections both nationally and internationally, and she has live-painted in Australia, Argentina, Spain, Morocco, France, Poland, Italy, South Africa, the United States, Indonesia, Tanzania and the United Arab Emirates.
“I create to document and share the beauty I am blessed to feel.”
From the Artist
Growing up among sand hills and scrub, atop horses surrounded by vast Australian landscape, the raw beauty of nature etched into my heart early. I now know natural beauty buoys me. I am driven to pass on that precious depth of experience in the simplest way possible.
The spark of inspiration moves me wholly, and I never begin creating until my heart is alive with true inspiration from either one single moment, or from immersing myself in a place or deep research. Then flows forth my purest creative.
I like to leave room for life in my works. I curate a scene when I translate my experience visually, allowing it to tell the tale of what in a moment or view speaks to me.
The power, grace and beauty of the presence of horses will always call forth my best. It is a delightful joy translating them and their excellence. My heart gallops forth most freely when my brush flows with the lines and lives of horses.
“Laura Crane (Douglas) was our ‘artist-in-residence’ in our box at the recent Melbourne Carnival. She was fabulous.
Laura did marvellous paintings for all our guests, which they are now treasuring.
“Laura painted the most magnificent picture to celebrate my horse, Fiorente’s, win. It is firmly above our mantelpiece. We adore it.
Thank you Laura. You are very talented.”
