Laura Arkle Art

Laura Arkle Art Devon artist
Oil paintings- message me for commissions

My finished oil painting of physalis on a vintage plate. Such delightfully juicy colours!!
29/08/2026

My finished oil painting of physalis on a vintage plate. Such delightfully juicy colours!!

A little storytime. Many years past, there was once a little girl. She was full to the brim with wonder. She could see j...
13/08/2026

A little storytime.
Many years past, there was once a little girl. She was full to the brim with wonder. She could see joy and light and colour in everything. In each glistening ripple of water in the harbour, in every shimmering iridescent wing of a bee as it perches atop a thistle. She looked and saw, and looked and felt. Her heart was so overflowing with each moment celebrating this astonishing world that she wanted to remember, to keep it for always. So she took photos on her camera. Some captured a sense of place she could remember the feeling of. Some captured the people she felt so closely connected to. None could capture the colours she saw, that she felt in that moment. The colours disappeared. She looked hard at the photographs, printed, enlarged. Those wonderous colours which inspired her experience of the world, could not be captured.
She turned to art, to color pencil, felt tip, pastel, paint. Here. Here is where she could see that pure colour again.
She used her colours to feel joy in every detail, in each soft petal as it curves away from its fluffy tangerine centre. The joyous hues found on the delicate surface of skin as it pours over bone and muscle. She painted and painted. And saw and saw and felt it all. She shared her joy and colour and wonder with others and they felt it too. They connected.

One day she stopped. Just like that.
She stopped painting, creating. She still saw and felt, but forgot. Forgot how important creating joy with colour really was to her.
She got distracted by big ideas that felt very important. Other people's ideas, expectations from somewhere other than her own heart. She lived, she experienced so much joy and laughter and fun and travelled very far and very fast.
She moved so fast through life that she couldn't stop to take time to create. To give herself slow time to breathe and breathe. To notice and see. Deeply see. To be once again filled to the brim with wonder. To truly see again the joy and incredulity of what our world has to offer. To create once more.

This is my promise to that little girl that I won't forget her again. This is why I create.

Copyright Laura Arkle 2026.
This text may not be used without the author's consent.

Here's my oil painting of satsumas and a lemon painted on canvas board. I love painting fruit, their colours are just so...
11/08/2026

Here's my oil painting of satsumas and a lemon painted on canvas board. I love painting fruit, their colours are just so vivid and fully saturated! Yum!

I popped out to a local flower field for some plein air oil painting this morning. The flowers were so gorgeous- I was s...
10/08/2026

I popped out to a local flower field for some plein air oil painting this morning.
The flowers were so gorgeous- I was spoilt for choice of what to paint. I decided to focus on shadow and depth for this session. I wonder if you can tell how still and hot the air was?!
The first slide shows my oil painting of the flower field. The second shows some of my quick spontaneous sketches, responding to my environment to see which composition sparks the most joy to then paint.

Popped over to Cornwall for a few days. Lots of plein air painting, so much inspiration found!
09/08/2026

Popped over to Cornwall for a few days. Lots of plein air painting, so much inspiration found!

I've been playing with shadow.My oil painting of a jug of roses from my garden.
04/08/2026

I've been playing with shadow.
My oil painting of a jug of roses from my garden.

I've been experimenting with looser brush strokes. Roses and sweet peas from the garden in a vintage vase.Oil on canvas.
22/07/2026

I've been experimenting with looser brush strokes.
Roses and sweet peas from the garden in a vintage vase.
Oil on canvas.

My watercolor painting sketch of glorious roses from my garden in a vintage rose bowl handed down from my grandparents. ...
30/05/2026

My watercolor painting sketch of glorious roses from my garden in a vintage rose bowl handed down from my grandparents.

My oil painting of apple blossom branches. Inspired by the apple tree which grows next to my studio (also known as the s...
13/05/2026

My oil painting of apple blossom branches. Inspired by the apple tree which grows next to my studio (also known as the shed).

My quick oil painting sketch of the view from my garden as the sun starts to set.
22/04/2026

My quick oil painting sketch of the view from my garden as the sun starts to set.

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