Laura Ball’s Quiet Worlds
Laura Ball in her San Diego studio
This spring I had the pleasure of featuring Laura Ball in Bouquet, an exhibition I curated at ICA North in Encinitas — and watching people respond to her work was one of my favorite parts of the whole show.
Of the five artists in the exhibition, Laura's work drew the most consistently wide-ranging response. Seasoned collectors stopped. People who had never been inside a gallery stopped. That kind of reach is genuinely rare, and it's something I've been thinking about ever since.
work in Laura’s studio
Her watercolors are technically extraordinary — intricate, luminous, deeply intentional. But that's not quite what makes people linger. There's something harder to name: a sense of wonder, an organic spirituality, an emotional depth that feels rooted rather than decorative. People who don't know contemporary art stop because they feel something. People who know it well stop for entirely different reasons.
Her work moves between landscape and something more interior — skies that feel dreamed, water that holds light like memory, botanical worlds that exist just outside the edge of the recognizable. There's always a sense of being invited somewhere private.
Laura's work is held in the collections of the Denver Art Museum, LACMA, and 21c Museum, and she is represented by David B. Smith Gallery in Denver.
The works shown below, Night Swimming, Boundless, and Coral Sunset are among her current available works. If you're interested in learning more or discussing a piece, please reach out: info@pageartprojects.com.
Night Swimming, 2025
watercolor, ink, gesso, gouache, acrylic, colored pencil and wax on paper
51.5 x 34 in.
Boundless, 2025
watercolor, ink, wax and gesso on paper
30 x 22 in.
Coral Sunset, 2026
watercolor, ink, gouache and pastel on paper
16 x 12 in.
To learn more about Laura Ball's work:
lauraball.net | @lauraballnet
For availability and inquiries, contact info@pageartprojecs.com