Laura Partin - Visual artist

Laura Partin - Visual artist Visual artist based in Bucharest, Romania. Laura Partin was born in Iasi, Romania, in 1986. In 2021 she obtained a PhD in Fine Arts at the Paris 8 University.

This is where she studied fine arts and art theory, at the George Enescu University. Between 2012 and 2014 she was a fellow in Fine Arts at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice. In her works she explores several drawing techniques such as pen on paper, watercolor and India ink on canvas, as well as performance (sometimes participatory), installation or video art. Over the years she has tackle

d subjects such as gender stereotypes, the condition of migrant workers, as well as concepts from social psychology such as cognitive dissonance or terror management theory. Her most recent project, Sfratto/Eviction, exhibited in Rome in 2020, included a series of drawings and a video about the eviction of Roma families from their homes in Romania between 2010 and 2018. Currently, in the context of the pandemic, she became interested in the multimedia/performative potential of contemporary feminist poetry and in the time spent in nature as a form of introspective healing.

05/20/2026

Inspired by Norse mythology, this work embodies Rán, the goddess and personification of the sea. Wife of the giant Ægir and mother of the nine wave-daughters, Rán drifts between dream and abyss, silent and mysterious, cloaked in the foam of the waves. She is depicted with a delicate yet menacing net, a symbol of the sea’s unseen force that draws sailors into the depths. Her net is not merely an object, but an extension of the ocean’s will, a coral, a call toward the unknown, toward the beauty and danger hidden beneath the water’s surface. The piece combines the fluid transparencies of watercolor with intense accents of acrylic ink, capturing the contrast between the sea’s visual allure and its unforgiving power. This composition evokes myth as an echo of a lost world, where deities dwell within the waves.
Watercolor and acrylic ink on cotton paper.
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05/19/2026

A painting by Jackson Po***ck was sold for $181 million and to be honest Janet Sobel did some dripping before him. Janet who?

05/18/2026

Details of my work called Yemaya - a depiction of the mother of the oceans in the Yoruba religion, an ancient West African tradition indigenous to the Yoruba people from Nigeria and Benin.
Yemaya is the Orisha who birthed the sea and all life within them.

Known as Magohalmi, she is a giant creator goddess in Korean folklore. Legends describe her walking across the seas with...
05/16/2026

Known as Magohalmi, she is a giant creator goddess in Korean folklore. Legends describe her walking across the seas with her feet on one shore and her hands on another; her various bodily functions and actions are said to have created islands, rivers, and mountains.
Watercolor on cotton paper, 56 x 76 cm

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Key threats for mushroom coral species include climate change (bleaching), ocean acidification, pollution, and the aquar...
05/14/2026

Key threats for mushroom coral species include climate change (bleaching), ocean acidification, pollution, and the aquarium trade.
Watercolor and colored pencils on cotton paper, 56 x 76 cm
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05/08/2026

Pinus nigra (black pine) is not globally threatened, but specific subspecies are endangered due to habitat degradation, overgrazing, and climate change.
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